problem with `find -delete`
Alexander Best
alexbestms at wwu.de
Wed Feb 10 13:24:36 UTC 2010
thanks goes to jilles on #freebsd-bugbuster. he told me that -delete doesn't
delete directories recursively.
so what i'm bow using is
sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -exec rm -rf {} +
cheers.
alex
Jason schrieb am 2010-02-10:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:51:52AM +0100, Alexander Best thus spake:
> >hi there,
> >i've been trying to delete all the works directories in my ports
> >dir. this is
> >the command i'm trying to use:
> >sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -delete
> >after i issue the command however
> >sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d
> >tells me that nothing got deleted at all. is there something wrong
> >with that
> >command?
> >cheers.
> >alex
> You may want to try looking here:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
> Section 4.5.5
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