how to run Eclipse -clean on a Mac?

Question

I can run eclipse -clean on my PC, but on my Mac, the executable is Eclipse.app -- how do you run that with arguments on the command-line?

Answer 1

I had this problem earlier today. When I would try to run clean option it still wouldn't finish building the workspace. I found that if I removed the .metadata file from the workspace it would create a brand new workspace and even launch the initial welcome screen. Warning this will remove all of your builds, and all information from your workspace in eclipse, however it will remain intact in your finder folder which you can later import from with a little finagling.