Re: A handy utility (at least for me)

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

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