Installation Cleanup?

James Darrell McCauley mccauley at ecn.purdue.edu
Thu Oct 6 20:25:52 EDT 1994


Ken Waight (ken at meso.com) writes on 6 Oct 94:
>A basic GRASS question -- how do I clean up our GRASS installation to
>save disk space?  Is there a "make clean" I can do?  Can I remove directories
>and files relating to things I don't use (like xgrass) without hurting
>anything?

yes, you may 'rm -rf' xgrass.

Another cleanup operation may be:
'find appropriate_dir -name "OBJ*" -exec -rm -rf {} \; -prune'
This deletes all object files.

'gzip -r appropriate_dir' is also good if your installation is
fairly stable (gzip is available from prep.ai.mit.edu and GNU
mirrors).

--Darrell



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