Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:47:54 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "J.S." <johann@broadpark.no>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to delete only empty directories Message-ID: <20020119164755.484DC3EDF@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020119111746.7fea5191.johann@broadpark.no> References: <20020119111746.7fea5191.johann@broadpark.no>
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On Saturday 19 January 2002 05:17 am, J.S. wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I was in the middle of downloading heaps of directories with lftp, while
> suddenly an error occured (I forgot to tell lftp I just changed my account
> password), thus lftp created all the directories it had collected the
> information of, and they became, ofcourse, empty.
>
> Now I need to delete those empty directories and _only_ the empty
> directories. Does anyone know how?
>
> I did a "find ./ -type d -empty > ../empties" to at least get control over
find -d . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
Actually you don't even need to check for empty, since rmdir refuses to
delete non-empty directories.
The secret, though, is the -d option to find; without it, find will keep
trying to delete the directories that are above the ones that you are going
to delete & you'll have to execute it over & over to get the effect you want.
> what I need to remove. But it is like several hundred directories and I
> ain't planning on doing it all manually =) Besides, I don't know how to
> script so I'd really appreciate some help from the mighty audience.
>
> Thanks.
>
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