mise/Q/How do I clear the installed mise tools?

• How do I clear the installed mise/Tools (either all of them, or the recently used ones) so you can reinstall them? card

  • My Answer

    • 1 - AFAIK there's no built-in way to bulk uninstall all mise tools. One could use mise/ls and pipe that to mise/uninstall somehow, perhaps.
      • 1.1 - I have a mise/Task/File defined in My/Dotfiles which can help remove tools that aren't globally installed (that is): mise tool:missing:uninstall; that could be used as a guide

        • > mise tasks | grep tool
          tool:missing:ls         List installed mise tools not referenced in any config
          tool:missing:uninstall  Uninstall mise tools not referenced in any config

    • My Note

      • mise/cache/clear clears the build cache for all tools or, if one has specified a single tool, it clears the build cache for just that tool. This does not uninstall the tool.
      • mise/cache/prune removes cache items not accessed in 30 days.

  • Answer from AI

    • Short answer: run mise/cache/clear to delete mise cache files. Pass one or more tool names to limit scope, e.g. mise cache clear node python. Alias: mise cache c.
    • See the cache location: mise/cache with no subcommand, or mise/cache/path, prints the directory (on macOS often ~/Library/Caches/mise; Linux often ~/.cache/mise).
    • Lighter cleanup: mise/cache/prune removes cache entries not accessed in 30 days (override with MISE_CACHE_PRUNE_AGE). Use when you want to reclaim space without wiping everything.
    • After a full clear: reinstall tools that mise still lists in config, e.g. mise install, if versions were removed from disk along with cache data.
    • Caveat: some backends (notably http:) symlink installs into the cache; clearing cache can leave dangling installs until you reinstall those tools.