Is There A Way To Invalidate / Cache Restart From Terminal?

I was wondering if there was any command from terminal that I could use to match the use in Android Studio of doing file>invalidate cache/restart. Thanks!

Solution 1:

According to a JetBrains employee doing the following will have the same effect:

1. Shut down Android Studio externally (using kill or similar command), then
2. Delete system/caches directory (more on that later), and
3. Start the IDE again.

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How to find system/caches directory?

Location of the IDE files depends on the operating system, product and version.

• For IntelliJ IDEA follow this guide.

  So e.g. for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 on macOS you should be looking for ~/Library/Caches/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2020.3/caches directory

• For Android Studio follow the same guide as above but instead of JetBrains in the path use Google

  So e.g. for Android Studio 4.2 on macOS you should be looking for ~/Library/Caches/Google/AndroidStudio4.2/caches directory