VSCode ipch cleaner

About:

Little bash script for delete temporary C/C++ IntelliSense VSCode ipch folders.

What is ipch folders ?

IPCH - IntelliSense Precompiled Header File

Contains precompiled header information used by IntelliSense, Microsoft's code assistance module used for code hinting, documentation, and autocompletion while the programmer types source code.

You can easily find this folder in .vscode folder in you project folder (also it's ${workspaceFolder}/.vscode).

Additional:

Be sure this script have permission to run:

chmod u+x vscode_ipch_cleaner.sh

Flags:

If you run it without arguments, it's will delete all ipch folders from your home directory(~).

Flag	Description	Argmunets
-f	Finds all ipch folders from the specified directory. (default: ~)	Directory. (Optional)
-p	Deleting all ipch folders from the specified directory. (default: ~)	Directory. (Optional)
-q	Activate quiet mode. (No deleting info output)	1: Directory. (Necessary) 2: Path to file in which will be printed output from quiet mode. (Nccessary)

Last line in scripts output "find: ...: No such file or directory" tell you about what all works fine and this folder successly deleted.

Recomendation

Most effectivly way to use this script it's create alias without output info and add it's to your .[bash/zsh]rc:

echo "alias ipch_clear='~/vscode_ipch_cleaner/vscode_ipch_cleaner.sh -q ~ /dev/null'" >> ~/.zshrc

or similar equivalent:

echo "alias ipch_clear='~/vscode_ipch_cleaner/vscode_ipch_cleaner.sh >> /dev/null'" >> ~/.zshrc

Something else...

Or you can set maximum cache size in Mb in VSCode settings:

"C_Cpp.intelliSenseCacheSize": 1024

whatever...