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On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:

> Nils and Crist,
>
> thanks for your help.
>
> Forgive me for being pedantic, but my curiosity is getting the better of me;
> What is the role of "make clean" if "rm -rf /usr/obj/*" will do the trick?
> Or perhaps these two things are totally unrelated?!?
>
> Patrick.

make clean goes through all of the Makefiles in /usr/src and calls "clean"
for each of them. rm -rf just removes all of the files without having to
be told which files to remove. It's probably going to be faster.


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