rust-lang / rust-lang/rustup

Glob support for rustup toolchain remove

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Description

I have 63 toolchains, culminating in 40GB of hard drive use. I'd love to remove all nightlies, but I have to add the nightlies one by one. It would be great if one could specify regexes like rustup toolchain remove nightly-*.

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Research direction

Start at the rustup toolchain remove command entry point and trace how toolchain names are parsed and resolved. Determine how patterns such as nightly-* should match installed toolchains, then verify that matching toolchains are removed without changing single-name behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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