Re: Removing old versions

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Joe Koski wrote:

> Over the last year and a half, my Mac OS X hard disk has accumulated 
> several old and no longer used versions of octave and octave forge. In 
> order to restore the real estate, what is the best strategy? My first 
> thought is to use rm -Rf on each offending directory, but there are 
> many:

This should do it:

\rm -rf ./local/*/octave* ./local/*/*/octave*

You probably ran the find command from /usr and could do this instead of 
the above:

\rm -rf /usr/local/*/octave* ./local/*/*/octave*

Do you really want to delete these files?:

./share/emacs/21.2/lisp/progmodes/octave*

Maybe not.

Mik



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