On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Gonsole, > > Gonsolo [2010-09-27 2:57 +0200]: > > I own a web server with tight space (1GB). Over 300MB are in /usr, > > over 25MB in /usr/share/doc. I'd like to remove all files in > > /usr/share/doc but unfortunately it is not as easy as removing all > > -doc packages. > > You can do that relatively easily in Maverick thanks to a new dpkg > feature: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReducingDiskFootprint#Drop%20unnecessary%20files
Wouldn't it be better/safer to use
find /usr/share/doc -depth -type f ! -name copyright -delete || true
find /usr/share/doc -empty -delete || true
instead of piping filenames through |xargs rm/rmdir?
Marius Gedminas
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