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Subject: Re: A handy utility (at least for me)
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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