From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Jul 10 08:27:45 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C549737B401
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:27:45 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net
	[207.217.120.189])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5893543F85
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:27:45 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from lukec@gateway.e-and-s.com)
Received: from a3hj189ry508c.bc.hsia.telus.net ([66.183.187.76]
	helo=[192.168.1.100])
	by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.33 #1)
	id 19adKg-0004LU-00; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:27:43 -0700
User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:27:49 -0700
From: Luke Cowell <lukec@gateway.e-and-s.com>
To: Nigel Taylor <nigelt@iinet.net.au>,
	<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Message-ID: <BB32D405.6D8%lukec@gateway.e-and-s.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F0D4C46.5040502@iinet.net.au>
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
X-ELNK-Trace: b129f79fbe128c36e24c3129c0440d204d2b10475b571120d040cd4ff06ad6c2453e86cf2f6b767724ce30cde3b24aed350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c
Subject: Re: Try to delete files
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:27:46 -0000

For academic purposes, I'll provide this explanation.

Use find; this command would delete any files modified more than one year
ago.

Find /usr/ports -mtime +365 -xargs rm -ri {} \;



Luke

> From: Nigel Taylor <nigelt@iinet.net.au>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:21:42 +0800
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Try to delete files
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Hi, in my years of using freebsd i have collected alot of distfiles in
> the ports tree and i want to free up some space on my harddrive and i
> was wondering is there a command to delete files in the distfiles folder
> that are less than the year 2000?
> 
> Or maybe there is a program that deletes all the older releases in the
> distfiles? if someone could help i would be gratefully
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nigel Taylor
> 
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
>