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Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
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Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:11:38 +0800."
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In message <20001119151138.A7434@bsdvm.jtjang.idv.tw>, Jing-Tang Keith 
Jang wri
tes:
> On 11/18/00, James wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:35:27AM -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> > > # find /usr/ports -type d -name work -print -execdir make clean \; -prune
> > > 
> > > is much faster than "make clean" from the top. It seems to work OK if a
> > > clean target is put in /usr/ports/Makefile just prior to the .include
> > > <bsd.port.subdir.mk>
> > 
> > Or for a much faster solution:
> > find /usr/ports -type d -name work -prune -print -exec rm -r {} \;
> 
> why not just "cd /usr/ports; rm -fr */*/work"?

That takes forever tying up your shell looking for work directories.  
You can put a copy of the shell in the background so you get on with 
other tasks.

cd /usr/ports && (rm -rf */*/work) &


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