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# How to use

How do we use this application?

RuntimeTrim must be launched with arguments providing paths to the build output of any project that contains the `runtimes` folder. For example, if you're running Linux and you're trying to trim the `runtimes` folder off Nitrocid's build output folder (`/home/user/ksbin`), you'd be executing RuntimeTrim like this:

```shell-session
$ dotnet RuntimeTrim.dll /home/user/ksbin
```

Once done, you'll find that the build output is now significantly smaller than before, depending on how many library files are there in the runtimes folder.