Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:18:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting a Link Farm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960727111633.27813D@boner.mrami.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960727001606.11359B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote:
> I've had /usr/ports linked to /cdrom/ports with lndir; in addition to
> the symbolic links, quite a few regular files also existed in various
> directories.
>
> I couldn't find any direct way to remove the links lndir created, so
> I used find to find symbolic links and remove them, then found the
> regular files and moved them, and finally used rm -R to get rid of
> all the empty directories.
>
> Is there an easier way, or a way to remove only empty directories and
> leave those with regular files?
find /usr/ports -type l -exec rm {} \;
will delete all symbolic links.
Marc.
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