internet explorer - clear cache of browser by command line

Question

I am working in media domain. I need to check every change in all leading browsers i.e. IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

To clear cache, every time i need to use Ctrl + Shift + del.

Is there any another way to clear the cache of every web browser using command line?

Answer 1

Here is how to clear all trash & caches (without other private data in browsers) by a command line. This is a command line batch script that takes care of all trash (as of April 2014):

erase "%TEMP%*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%TEMP%*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"

erase "%TMP%*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%TMP%*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"

erase "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%TEMP*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%ALLUSERSPROFILE%TEMP*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"

erase "%SystemRoot%TEMP*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%SystemRoot%TEMP*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"


@rem Clear IE cache -  (Deletes Temporary Internet Files Only)
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8
erase "%LOCALAPPDATA%MicrosoftWindowsTempor~1*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%LOCALAPPDATA%MicrosoftWindowsTempor~1*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"

@rem Clear Google Chrome cache
erase "%LOCALAPPDATA%GoogleChromeUser Data*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%LOCALAPPDATA%GoogleChromeUser Data*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"


@rem Clear Firefox cache
erase "%LOCALAPPDATA%MozillaFirefoxProfiles*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%LOCALAPPDATA%MozillaFirefoxProfiles*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"

pause

I am pretty sure it will run for some time when you first run it :) Enjoy!