A handy utility (at least for me)
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Mon Aug 28 16:19:22 UTC 2006
Rick C. Petty wrote:
> Mario Lobo wrote:
> > My /usr/ports directory was occuping 24 gigs, of which 20 was just from the
> > 'work' directories !
You should type "make clean" more often. ;-)
> > 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
The following is probably the most efficient solution.
It doesn't run into all subdirectories (and works with
an arbitrary numebr of subdirectories).
cd /usr/ports; echo */*/work | xargs rm -rf
Best regards
Oliver
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