Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:17:41 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem with `find -delete` Message-ID: <permail-20100210151741f7e55a9d00007f9e-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <20100210140307.GA38085@ozzmosis.com>
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*hehehe* right. that would have been the easiest solution. thanks a bunch.
alex
andrew clarke schrieb am 2010-02-10:
> 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
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