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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find empty folders Post 302369878 by ghostdog74 on Monday 9th of November 2009 10:34:39 PM
Old 11-09-2009
don't get a file name like that using ls -1 and print column 9. if you have spaces in the file name , you will not get the correct file name. Use find instead, then something to count inside each directory. Pseudocode
Code:
find . -type d | while read DIR
do
   var=`ls $DIR | wc -l `
   if var is 0  then echo "empty" fi
done

 

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       Examine source files in the directory tree rooted at SRCDIR, or the current directory if none is given.	Search the source files for common
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