Regex to remove subdirectory

Scrutinizer · #1 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Assuming there are only subdirectories in $DIRECTORY that start with "fs", this should work:

Code:

find $DIRECTORY/fs*/* -type d -printf "'%p'\n"|sort -r |xargs rmdir 2>&-

janel10 · #2 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

There are directories under, so this doesn't work. The directories look like this:
/directory/images/fsa/09005573FRA
/directory/images/fsa/09004364EVA

It is these 0900.... directories that need to be removed.
There a literally hundreds of these subdirectories that I need to remove. I guess my question wasn't clear enough. Can you still help me?

Scrutinizer · #3 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Actually I think that should work. You seem to confirm that there are only subdirectories called fs* (e.g. fsa) in $DIRECTORY (/directory/images). These subdirectories must not be removed but the subdirectories inside these subdirectories do have to be removed if they are empty (i.e. contain no files or further subdirectories).

S.

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