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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:20:46 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: better than 'make clean'
Message-ID:  <20000714132046.D3287@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <20000714045027.A2409@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 04:50:28AM %2B0100
References:  <20000714045027.A2409@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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j mckitrick said on Jul 14, 2000 at 04:50:28:
> 
> i searched my saved mail, and i can't find it.
> 
> i saw a better method to delete work directories/files than make clean.
> does anyone know offhand what that was?

rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work ?  :-)
Takes a long time, but if you've not been doing "make clean" regularly
and have forgotten what you made last, this will do it.  But "make
clean" works fine otherwise, cleans the dependencies too, I can't
imagine what would be faster.

Rahul.


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