A handy utility (at least for me)

[Oliver Fromme]

Thiago Damas <tdamas at gmail.com> wrote:
 >  It can be:
 >  cd /usr/ports
 >  rm -rf */*/work

That could overflow your argument verctor if there's a
large number of work directories.

It's better to use "echo */*/work | xargs rm -rf" if
you don't know the size of the pattern expansion in
advance, especially in shell scripts.  echo is a shell-
builtin, so the argument vector limit doesn't apply.

xargs is your friend.  :-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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