The following script will remove all but latest artifacts downloaded by Maven from your local repo (~/.m2). This will save disk space since maven don’t remove old artifacts automatically. Just add paths to desired artifacts instead of underlined paths.
clear_artifacts(){
delete_all_but_latest(){
pushd ~/.m2/repository/$1
ls -t | tail +2 | tail -r | xargs rm -r
popd
}
delete_all_but_latest com/name/path/to/artifact1
delete_all_but_latest com/name/path/to/artifact3
delete_all_but_latest com/name/path/to/artifact2
}