Timeline for Finding empty directories recursively
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| Apr 30 at 8:53 | comment | added | Walf |
Deletion in a single pass is possible: find some-path/ -mindepth 1 -depth -type d -print0 | xargs -0r rmdir 2>/dev/null. This will pass non-empty dirs to xargs but rmdir won't delete them, and the warnings are silenced. The -mindepth just avoids deleting the search root, so omit it if you want.
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| Dec 13, 2015 at 18:54 | vote | accept | Thodoris | ||
| Dec 12, 2015 at 21:22 | history | edited | Trey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2015 at 21:14 | history | edited | Trey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2015 at 21:07 | history | edited | Trey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2015 at 20:57 | history | answered | Trey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |