Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:27:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tdamas@gmail.com Subject: Re: A handy utility (at least for me) Message-ID: <200608300827.k7U8R3Nm060644@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <f8e3d83f0608292303q7c8b42dq33e599bbc0e2e371@mail.gmail.com>
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Thiago Damas <tdamas@gmail.com> wrote: > It can be: > cd /usr/ports > rm -rf */*/work That could overflow your argument verctor if there's a large number of work directories. It's better to use "echo */*/work | xargs rm -rf" if you don't know the size of the pattern expansion in advance, especially in shell scripts. echo is a shell- builtin, so the argument vector limit doesn't apply. xargs is your friend. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "Clear perl code is better than unclear awk code; but NOTHING comes close to unclear perl code" (taken from comp.lang.awk FAQ)
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