Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:30:24 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better than 'make clean' Message-ID: <20000714183024.E237@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000714132046.D3287@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:20:46PM %2B0530 References: <20000714045027.A2409@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000714132046.D3287@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:20:46PM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> j mckitrick said on Jul 14, 2000 at 04:50:28:
> >
> > i searched my saved mail, and i can't find it.
> >
> > i saw a better method to delete work directories/files than make clean.
> > does anyone know offhand what that was?
>
> rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work ? :-)
> Takes a long time, but if you've not been doing "make clean" regularly
> and have forgotten what you made last, this will do it. But "make
> clean" works fine otherwise, cleans the dependencies too, I can't
> imagine what would be faster.
>
I just run ``find /usr/ports -type d -a -name work''
Then just cd to the parent of each found work dir and do a make
clean. I keep intending to put it in a script, but....
> Rahul.
>
>
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