From: cal <cal@mail.meme.technology>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 10:13:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1a28e35-a069-4a95-995b-c469d5e9d2e0@mail.meme.technology> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zcecqb700nrXVUyM@ACM>
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`.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-11 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-10 15:56 [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me! Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-10 16:06 ` Stefan Schmiedl
2024-02-11 2:14 ` William Kenworthy
2024-02-11 10:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-12 8:34 ` Björn Fischer
2024-02-11 18:13 ` cal [this message]
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