From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jan 7 14: 6:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ocis.ocis.net (ocis.ocis.net [209.52.173.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3784937B416 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:06:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from phoenix (host64.wireless.kamloops.net [64.114.144.93]) by ocis.ocis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14638 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:06:20 -0800 From: "Freddie Cash" Organization: PhoenixTek Consulting To: newbies@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:06:23 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: cleanning ports Reply-To: fcash@bigfoot.com Message-ID: <3C39AB5F.15272.3EE480@localhost> In-reply-to: <20020107225124.H19828@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> References: <3C39A646.23700.2AF89E@localhost>; from fcash@bigfoot.com on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:44:38PM -0800 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:44:38PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Bernie wrote: > > > if i wanna clean all the obj etc from the ports tree, > > > can i go to /usr/ports and do a 'make clean' ? or do i have > > > to make a script that changes to all subdirs and do 'make clean' > > > on each dir? > > > > Depending on what you want to do, and how much time you want to > > devote to doing it, there are several ways to do this: > > > > 1. Do a 'make clean' from /usr/ports/ and go out for lunch, dinner, > > and a movie. Might be done by the time you get back. :) j/k > > > > 2. Write a shell script to step through all the sub-directories > > doing 'make clean'. This isn't my idea of fun, though, and simply > > reproduces what #1 does. > > > > 3. Write a shell script to delete "/usr/ports/*/*/work/". This > > should be faster than either of the above, and can be extended to > > delete "/usr/ports/distfiles/*". > find /usr/ports -type d -name "work" -exec rm -r {}\ ; > should do the job. ;> In theory, it would, but there's a typo, meaning that find will complain. :) You can't have a space between the '\' and the ';'. :) cd /usr/ports find -type d -name work -exec rm -r {} \; Or, to speed things up: find -type d -name work -exec rm -rf {} \; But, as I said above, there are plenty of ways to do it. :D Cheers, Freddie PhoenixTek Consulting fcash@bigfoot.com Unix / Networking Services (250) 314-4029 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message