How to clear or clean specific pod from the local cocoapods cache

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Clearing a specific pod

pod cache clean --all # will clean all pods
pod cache clean 'FortifySec' --all # will remove all installed 'FortifySec' pods

Sample output of pod cache clean 'FortifySec', for pods not using semantic versioning, this could result in many copies of same pod in cache:

pod cache clean 'FortifySec'
1: FortifySec v2.2 (External)
2: FortifySec v2.2 (External)
...
...
18: FortifySec v2.2 (External)
19: FortifySec v2.2 (External)

Which pod cache do you want to remove?

Complete cleanup (pod reset)

rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods
rm -rf Pods
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/*
pod deintegrate
pod setup
pod install

Example of pod cache list prior to clean

pod cache list

FortifySec:
- Version: 2.2.1
Type:    External
Spec:    /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/Specs/External/FortifySec/ui99sd....podspec.json
Pod:     /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/External/FortifySec/yi23sd...-sdjc3
- Version: 2.2.1
Type:    External
Spec:    /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/Specs/External/FortifySec/dsfs-df23
Pod:     /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/External/FortifySec/dfs0d-2dfs
- Version: 2.2
Type:    External
Spec:    /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/Specs/External/FortifySec/u78hyt....podspec.json
Pod:     /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/External/FortifySec/e000sd
- Version: 2.2.2
Type:    External
Spec:    /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/Specs/External/FortifySec/s2d-df.podspec.json
Pod:     /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/External/FortifySec/ds34sd....
- Version: 2.2.1
Type:    External
Spec:    /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/Specs/External/FortifySec/sdfsdfdsf....podspec.json
Pod:     /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/External/FortifySec/edfs5d7...
AFNetworking:
- Version: 2.5.3
Type:    Release
Spec:    /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/Specs/Release/AFNetworking/2.6.podspec.json
Pod:     /Users/j.d/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/Release/AFNetworking/2.6.3-4e7e2

Notice the multiple pod cache for - Version: 2.2.1. It’s a good idea to do so to get rid of unnecessary disk space used by pod cache.

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