On 2/10/24 07:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, gentoo. > > I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository. > This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is > > $ find . -name '*.elc' | xargs rm > > Just as an aside: find supports the `-delete` action already, preferable to piping to `xargs rm` since it avoids accidents involving unusual filenames.
Bonus: you can run `find something -print` first to verify what will be deleted, then swap out `-print` for `-delete`.
