Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 01:27:07 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: James <j@evilcode.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean Message-ID: <20001119012706.C3532@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <20001118231633.A85206@evilcode.com>; from j@evilcode.com on Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:16:33PM -0800 References: <200011190635.eAJ6ZRS94516@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20001118230305.A83848@evilcode.com> <20001119151138.A7434@bsdvm.jtjang.idv.tw> <20001118231633.A85206@evilcode.com>
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[Moved to -ports, which seems a nicer place for this]
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:16:33PM -0800, a little birdie told me
that James remarked
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:11:38PM +0800, Jing-Tang Keith Jang wrote:
> > On 11/18/00, James wrote:
> > > 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"?
>
> If I understand it correctly, there is a limit to the maximum number
> of command line arguments that a program can have.
Fine, fine
find /usr/ports -type d -name work -prune -print | xargs rm -rf
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