Re: A handy utility (at least for me)

Richard Coleman wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
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

So does this:

find /usr/ports -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3 -name work -print -delete -prune

I would be surprised if the globbing in most shells was more
efficient than find.

Both are mainly disk-bound, so the runtime should be about
the same, I guess. (I'm too lazy to do any actual bench-
marks with find and various shells.)

Although as mentioned before, nothing beats putting all the work
directories in a single location, and using a single rm command.

Yes, there is something that beats it: If you put the work
directories on their own filesystem, you can simply umount
and newfs it, which is probably faster than rm -rf. If you
use a memory filesystem (md device), it's even sufficient
to just umount it. I think nothing beats that in terms of
speed. ;-)

Best regards
Oliver

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