Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:24:34 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de> To: Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem with `find -delete` Message-ID: <permail-20100210132434f7e55a9d00005170-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <20100210031456.GA80933@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
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thanks goes to jilles on #freebsd-bugbuster. he told me that -delete doesn't
delete directories recursively.
so what i'm bow using is
sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -exec rm -rf {} +
cheers.
alex
Jason schrieb am 2010-02-10:
> 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
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