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# sync
> Flushes all pending write operations to the appropriate disks.
> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/sync-invocation.html>.
- Flush all pending write operations on all disks:
`sync`
- Flush all pending write operations on a single file to disk:
`sync {{path/to/file}}`
- Flush writes and drop file system caches (Linux only):
`sync; echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches`
- Flush disk writes and attempts to clear inactive memory and filesystem caches (macOS only):
`sync; sudo purge`