A handy utility (at least for me)

[Richard Coleman]

Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 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
> 

So does this:

find /usr/ports -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3 -name work -print -delete -prune

I would be surprised if the globbing in most shells was more efficient than find.  Although as 
mentioned before, nothing beats putting all the work directories in a single location, and using a 
single rm command.

Richard Coleman
rcoleman at criticalmagic.com