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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:18:58 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com, mlobo@digiart.art.br
Subject:   Re: A handy utility (at least for me)
Message-ID:  <200608281618.k7SGIwWh065261@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060826225350.GA20172@megan.kiwi-computer.com>

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Rick C. Petty wrote:
 > Mario Lobo wrote:
 > > My  /usr/ports directory was occuping 24 gigs, of which 20 was just from the 
 > > 'work' directories !

You should type "make clean" more often.  ;-)

 > > Removing them one by one was a pain so I wrote this little utility to wipe 
 > > them off.
 > 
 > I find that the following command works just fine for me:
 > 
 > find /usr/ports -type d -name work -prune -print -delete

The following is probably the most efficient solution.
It doesn't run into all subdirectories (and works with
an arbitrary numebr of subdirectories).

cd /usr/ports; echo */*/work | xargs rm -rf

Best regards
   Oliver

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