How do I unpin and remove all IPFS content from my machine?

Question

I've added a bunch of files via ipfs add. How do I unpin and remove all of these at once?

Answer 1

to unpin all added content:

ipfs pin ls --type recursive | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs -n1 ipfs pin rm

then optionally run storage garbage collection to actually remove things:

ipfs repo gc