Show HN: Completely uninstall OS X apps from the command line (github.com)

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What's wrong with rm -rf /Path/To/Application?

That doesn't remove all of the associated preferences, caches, and other stuff the application could have left around.

This is cool, but it doesn't seem to good as good a job as AppZapper/AppCleaner/CleanMyMac when completely uninstalling something. I found a couple apps (esp those with preference pane entries) where there were some leftovers that the other cleaners would've caught. Regardless, it's cool to have an option for the command line.