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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:06:23 -0800
From:      "Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com>
To:        newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cleanning ports
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

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> 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


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