Re: A handy utility (at least for me)

It can be:
cd /usr/ports
rm -rf */*/work

[]s


On 8/26/06, Rick C. Petty <rick-freebsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

=)

-- Rick C. Petty
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