From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 10 03:16:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C89C1065670 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:16:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@e-e.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [64.156.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0605D8FC1F for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:16:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eggman.experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33EF4A2E3D7; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:06:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by eggman.experts-exchange.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:14:57 -0800 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:14:57 -0800 From: Jason To: Alexander Best Message-ID: <20100210031456.GA80933@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem with `find -delete` X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:16:25 -0000 On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:51:52AM +0100, Alexander Best thus spake: >hi there, > >i've been trying to delete all the works directories in my ports dir. this is >the command i'm trying to use: > >sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -delete > >after i issue the command however > >sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d > >tells me that nothing got deleted at all. is there something wrong with that >command? > >cheers. >alex You may want to try looking here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html Section 4.5.5 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html