Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:59:13 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mlobo@digiart.art.br Subject: Re: A handy utility (at least for me) Message-ID: <20060827.235913.-1889955932.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060826225350.GA20172@megan.kiwi-computer.com> References: <200608261919.07106.mlobo@digiart.art.br> <20060826225350.GA20172@megan.kiwi-computer.com>
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In message: <20060826225350.GA20172@megan.kiwi-computer.com>
"Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> writes:
: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:19:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote:
: >
: > My /usr/ports directory was occuping 24 gigs, of which 20 was just from the
: > 'work' directories !
: >
: > Removing them one by one was a pain so I wrote this little utility to wipe
: > them off.
:
: I find that the following command works just fine for me:
:
: find /usr/ports -type d -name work -prune -print -delete
cd /usr/ports ; rm -rf */*/work
seems to run a little faster for me... So long as I don't have a huge
number of work directories (fewer than thousands).
Warner
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