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 -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "I started using PostgreSQL around a month ago, and the feeling is similar to the switch from Linux to FreeBSD in '96 -- 'wow!'." -- Oddbjorn Steffensen _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
