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Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:19:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote:
>> My  /usr/ports directory was occuping 24 gigs, of which 20 was just from the 
>> 'work' directories !
>>
>> 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

And EVEN cooler is having a

WRKDIRPREFIX=           /var/ports

in your /etc/make.conf, that way an "rm -rf /var/ports/*" cleans without
unnecessary directory recursion.

Regards

  erdgeist
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