How to delete Safari cookies from OS 10.7.2 terminal?

Question

I would like to delete all Safari cookies from terminal on Mac OS 10.7.2.

I tried to delete ~/Library/Cookie/Cookies.binarycookies (this is the only file in ~/Library/Cookie), but it didn't help.

Please advise.

Answer 1

You need to stop the cookied process. It's a user-specific process that manages cookies, and recreates the cookies database whenever it's deleted.

killall cookied

When you launch Safari the next time, cookied will not be able to recreate the Cookies.binarycookies file from memory and will start with an empty cookies database. The file that will be created then will effectively be empty (<1kb).