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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Remove only Empty Directories Post 302363219 by kedar.mehta on Tuesday 20th of October 2009 02:02:52 PM
Old 10-20-2009
Data Remove only Empty Directories

I know this one was answered before in forum below -
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...d-command.html

But that one is closed & I have a question so here it goes.

I want to delete all 2006 files. Now if along with the files, if the folder is even older (2006) then it should be deleted as well - if it has all 2006 files.

so how I do it?

1) Deleted 2006 - old files. -- DONE without any issues.
2)
Delete All Empty folders left after Step #1
Quote:
find ./ -type d -depth -mtime +1052 –print| xargs rm –f
But here is what I get -
$: find ./ -empty -type d
find: bad option -empty
find: path-list predicate-list


I dont wanna experiment on my PROD environment with below command -
Quote:
find ./ -type d -exec rmdir 2>/dev/null {} \;
This ideally deletes all the directories but gives warning before deleting it. Tricking it is a good idea, but not sure how my OS will behave (Sun Solaris Unix).

Is writing a script only way to get it done in that case?!!

Anyhelp will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ked[COLOR="#738fbf"]

Last edited by kedar.mehta; 10-20-2009 at 04:08 PM.. Reason: Trying to avoid bumping up the post
 

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package require Tcl 8.4 package require term::ansi::ctrl::unix ?0.1.1? ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...? ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
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