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Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually remo


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:56:35 +0200

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In this case, I don't see a good way of getting the same information. The
>> best way I could come up with that was short enough for command-line use
>> was use find to find directories with only 2 symlinks to them, but of
>> course that only works on some filing systems.
>
> $ find -type d -empty

Note that if you simply want to remove all empty directories
(including e.g., those rendered empty by removing leaf dirs),
you should also use -depth and -delete:

  find . -depth -type d -empty -delete

Though, the -delete predicate is provided by GNU find,
it is not specified by POSIX.




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