Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 05:06:37 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: James <j@evilcode.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean Message-ID: <200011191306.eAJD6ha61960@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:16:33 PST." <20001118231633.A85206@evilcode.com>
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In message <20001118231633.A85206@evilcode.com>, James writes:
> 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.
That all depends on the number of work directories you have. If it's a
few than letting the shell search for work directories is not a
problem. If it's many then a find command piped to xargs is the most
efficient answer. I think that people might have an idea of how much
needs to be cleaned up, then choose the tool that works best.
Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC
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