a question for you shell scripters
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Thu Mar 27 14:17:48 CST 2003
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Steven Elling wrote:
> The `-links' and `-empty' options to find will not work in this case because
> there could be a branch with subdirectories but no files anywhere in the
> branch. The branch would have a indeterminate link count greater than 2
> and would not match the `-empty' option.
Someone else suggested using '-depth', which processes directory contents
before directories. A quick test verified that
find <path> -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} ;
does a proper recursive directory prune.
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