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Subject: Re: Try to delete files
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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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