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From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
To: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de>
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Subject: Re: problem with `find -delete`
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On Wed 2010-02-10 14:24:34 UTC+0100, Alexander Best (alexbestms@wwu.de) wrote:

> 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 {} +

AFAIK another method is:

sudo rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work