🧹 Arch Linux System Cleanup Script

A safe, interactive, and comprehensive cleanup script for Arch Linux systems that helps maintain system health and recover disk space.

✨ Features

• 🔄 System Updates - Keeps your system up-to-date with pacman -Syu
• 📦 Orphan Removal - Safely removes unused package dependencies
• 🗑️ Cache Cleaning - Cleans pacman and AUR helper caches (yay/paru support)
• 📝 Journal Management - Vacuums systemd journals (keeps last 2 weeks)
• 👤 User Cache Cleanup - Cleans ~/.cache while preserving browser data
• 🔗 Broken Symlink Removal - Finds and removes dead symbolic links
• 🗂️ Temp File Cleanup - Removes old files from /tmp and /var/tmp
• 📊 Disk Space Tracking - Shows before/after disk usage statistics
• 🎨 Colorful Output - Easy-to-read colored terminal output
• 🛡️ Safety Features - Interactive confirmation, error handling, and safe defaults

📋 Requirements

• Arch Linux (or Arch-based distribution)
• pacman (package manager)
• sudo privileges for system operations
• Bash 4.0+

Optional Dependencies

• pacman-contrib - Provides paccache for better cache management
• yay or paru - For AUR cache cleaning

🚀 Installation

Option 1: Direct Download

# Download the script
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sycorlax/Arch-Linux-System-Cleanup-Script/main/cleanup.sh

# Make it executable
chmod +x cleanup.sh

# Run it
./cleanup.sh