Or you can simply add -depth to your find command and execute rmdir, ignoring eventual errors (/dev/null).
In addition, some find implementations support the -empty flag.
In addition, some find implementations (like GNU find, for instance) support the -empty option:
Quote:
-empty File is empty and is either a regular file or a directory.
Hi folks,
I have a text file that I need to parse, and I cant figure it out. The source is a report breaking down softwares from various companies with some basic info about them (see source snippet below). Ultimately what I want is an excel sheet with only Adobe and Microsoft software name and... (5 Replies)
I am parsing a nagios config, searching for a string, and then printing the line 2 lines later (the "members" string). Here's the data:
define hostgroup{
hostgroup_name chat-dev
alias chat-dev
members thisisahostname
}
define hostgroup{
... (1 Reply)
Please check the attachment for the example.
Purpose: count how many "|" character in one line and also display the line number.
expect result:
Line 1 : there are 473 "|" characters
Line 2 : there are 473 "|" characters
I have tried to use awk to count it, it's ok when the statistic... (8 Replies)
Sample file:
This is line one,
this is another line,
this is the PRIMARY INDEX line
l ;
This is another line
The command should find the line with “PRIMARY INDEX” and remove the last character from the line preceding it (in this case , comma) and remove the first character from the line... (5 Replies)
Hi ,
I am doing some enhancements in an existing shell script. There it used the awk command in a function as below :
float_expr() {
IFS=" " command eval 'awk "
BEGIN {
result = $*
print result
exit(result == 0)
}"'
}
It calls the function float_expr to evaluate two values ,... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file with more than 1000 lines. Most of the lines have 16 characters. I want to find out lines that have less than 14 characters (usually 12 or 13).
wc -l gives me the line count and wc -c gives me the total characters in a file. I could not get the total characters for each line.... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I got a requirement when I was working with a file. Say the file has unloads of data from a table in the form
1|121|asda|434|thesi|2012|05|24|
1|343|unit|09|best|2012|11|5|
I was put into a scenario where I need the field count in all the lines in that file. It was simply... (6 Replies)
I need the character count of the last line of each file in a directory, and not the total.
Now I have been doing this but unfortunately, -exec doesn't support pipes:
find sent/ -type f -exec tail -1|wc -c {} \;
If I try this:
find sent/ -type f -exec tail -1 {} \; | wc -c
It will give... (6 Replies)
I will appreciate if you help me here in this script in Solaris Enviroment.
Scenario:
i have 2 files :
1) /tmp/TRANSACTIONS_DAILY_20180730.txt:
201807300000000004
201807300000000005
201807300000000006
201807300000000007
201807300000000008
2)... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: teokon90
10 Replies
LEARN ABOUT V7
rmdir
RMDIR(1) User Commands RMDIR(1)NAME
rmdir - remove empty directories
SYNOPSIS
rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
DESCRIPTION
Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.
--ignore-fail-on-non-empty
ignore each failure that is solely because a directory
is non-empty
-p, --parents
remove DIRECTORY and its ancestors; e.g., 'rmdir -p a/b/c' is similar to 'rmdir a/b/c a/b a'
-v, --verbose
output a diagnostic for every directory processed
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report rmdir translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO rmdir(2)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rmdir>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) rmdir invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 RMDIR(1)