Flushing the Magento 2 Cache Storage

You can easily flush the cache storage of Magento 2 from the command line. Note that the following script must be executed from the Magento 2 root folder:

It deletes all content from the var subfolder excluding the.htaccess file and the var/session subfolder. Besides, the script also deletes all content from the pub/static subfolder excluding the.htaccess file.

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