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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:48:41 -0800
From: Lee Doolan <rldoolan@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean
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>>>>> "James" == James  <j@evilcode.com> writes:

    James> On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:11:38PM +0800, Jing-Tang Keith
    James> Jang wrote:
    >> On 11/18/00, James wrote: > Or for a much faster solution: >
    >> find /usr/ports -type d -name work -prune -print -exec rm -r {}
    >> \;
    >> 
    >> why not just "cd /usr/ports; rm -fr */*/work"?

    James> If I understand it correctly, there is a limit to the
    James> maximum number of command line arguments that a program can
    James> have.

there is.  it is large.  man xargs.




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