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Our lives are increasingly intertwined with technology, the storage space on our devices becomes a valuable commodity. Mac users often find themselves grappling with the perennial issue of managing storage space efficiently. Accumulated files, applications, and system clutter can clog up your Mac's storage, slowing down performance and hindering productivity.

In this guide, we'll use the built-in Terminal app to free up space on your Mac without using any third-party software.

1. Empty the Trash

Start by emptying the Trash. Even though this can be done through the Finder, you can also do it via Terminal using the rm command.

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

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nazgob / ctags.setup
Created January 6, 2012 13:44
ctags setup on mac
# you have ctags but it does not work...
$ ctags -R --exclude=.git --exclude=log *
ctags: illegal option -- R
usage: ctags [-BFadtuwvx] [-f tagsfile] file ...
#you need to get new ctags, i recommend homebrew but anything will work
$ brew install ctags
#alias ctags if you used homebrew
$ alias ctags="`brew --prefix`/bin/ctags"