Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:00:05 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Try to delete files Message-ID: <200307101100.05759.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <BB32D405.6D8%lukec@gateway.e-and-s.com> References: <BB32D405.6D8%lukec@gateway.e-and-s.com>
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On Thursday 10 July 2003 10:27 am, Luke Cowell wrote:
> 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 {} \;
That works but is not a very good idea. My distfiles were recently
scoured with "portsclean -D" and this is the result:
% find /usr/ports/distfiles/ -type f -mtime +365 | wc -l
373
In other words I have 373 current distfiles which are over 365 days old.
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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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