Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:29:17 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "J. R. Lenz" <ralf@starshadow.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: useful shell script Message-ID: <op.tiia230t9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0611041231220.397@fangorn.starshadow.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0611041231220.397@fangorn.starshadow.com>
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On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:40:56 -0600, J. R. Lenz <ralf@starshadow.com> wrote: > Reclaiming disk space was a high priority on my laptop, which has a 4gb > FreeBSD partition. So, I wrote a useful shell script for removing all > the "work" directories in the ports tree (I'm sure someone has already > done this, but it saves a little bit of time for those people who are > not fluent in shell scripting). You'd be surprised how much disk space > can be freed up by removing unused source code and compiled objects. I have 'rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work' alias in my /etc/csh.cshrc. ;-) Cheers, Mezz > Peace, > - Ralf <snip> -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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