How to remove old versions of Eclipse plugins?

Question

After update, old Eclipse plugins remain in \"plugins\" folder (there are also leftovers in \"features\" folder).

Is there a way to remove those automatically?

Answer 1

Instead of sorting, etc. the solutions should be based on the contents of bundles.info.

Manual solution:

• create a copy of eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info
• edit
• search for regular expression: .*plugins/([^,]*),.*, replace with: $1 (e.g. using Notepad++)
• go to eclipse/plugin/
• select files and folders listed in this new file (e.g. in Total Commander: Mark > Load Selection From File)
• invert selection
• delete/move selected files and folders