Originally posted by oombera If you're just looking to delete empty directories, you can use this:
but use it with caution! It'll go ahead and remove all empty directories in the specified path, skipping regular files and directories that contain other files.
As far as just creating a list, I'm not sure...
use -print after the semicolon so you can see a list of the directories you just deleted.
Guys
I need to write a korn shell script that will search for a list of empty sub-directories in a specific directory and then email a list of these empty directories.
Any ideas - apologies, I am new to shell scripting.
Thanks (4 Replies)
Is there a way you can identify directories that are empty? I do not need to remove them, I just need to identify them below a cetain path.
I have tried the following already and it returned everything for some reason.
#!/bin/sh
&& set -- .
find "$@" -type d -depth -print > dir.txt |... (2 Replies)
$ls -lrt mydir
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 512 Aug 8 11:51 tmp
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 4608 Jan 19 12:20 web.cache
$ ls -lrt mydir/web.cache/
total 0
$ ls -lrt mydir/tmp/
total 0
Can anyone explain me the above results? I know the o/p of ls, but this... (3 Replies)
Hi
Wrote the below script to identify the empty directories ,when executing the below showing that directory is not empty but the directories are empty.Please help to identify the empty directories
33 is not empty
33 is not empty
33 is not empty
33 is not empty
for file in `find .... (5 Replies)
I know this one was answered before in forum below -
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/58210-removing-empty-folders-using-find-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... (2 Replies)
Hello, I'm submitting this thread, because I was looking a way to delete empty directories using find and I found a thread from 2007 that helped me. I have worked from that threat, but I found that the command sent would analyze original directory and may delete it to. I have come up with expanded... (3 Replies)
Hi.,
I have a script, in which I am processing a files present in the directory types.
ls -lrt | grep ^d | grep Dir_type | awk -f '{print $9}' |\
while read dir_name; do
#operations
done
where Dir_type is the pattern in which directories get created. How to filter out empty... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to delete all empty directories in a long directore tree structure. I want to use that from a script that will run on HP-UX 11. My definition of empty directory is that there is no regular file under it and directly beneath it. To elaborate, I have below directories.
/app/dev/java... (14 Replies)
Please help me. How i can find empty directories in solaris?? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: FoDeGe
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file::path
File::Path(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide File::Path(3pm)NAME
File::Path - create or remove directory trees
SYNOPSIS
use File::Path;
mkpath(['/foo/bar/baz', 'blurfl/quux'], 1, 0711);
rmtree(['foo/bar/baz', 'blurfl/quux'], 1, 1);
DESCRIPTION
The "mkpath" function provides a convenient way to create directories, even if your "mkdir" kernel call won't create more than one level of
directory at a time. "mkpath" takes three arguments:
o the name of the path to create, or a reference to a list of paths to create,
o a boolean value, which if TRUE will cause "mkpath" to print the name of each directory as it is created (defaults to FALSE), and
o the numeric mode to use when creating the directories (defaults to 0777)
It returns a list of all directories (including intermediates, determined using the Unix '/' separator) created.
If a system error prevents a directory from being created, then the "mkpath" function throws a fatal error with "Carp::croak". This error
can be trapped with an "eval" block:
eval { mkpath($dir) };
if ($@) {
print "Couldn't create $dir: $@";
}
Similarly, the "rmtree" function provides a convenient way to delete a subtree from the directory structure, much like the Unix command "rm
-r". "rmtree" takes three arguments:
o the root of the subtree to delete, or a reference to a list of roots. All of the files and directories below each root, as well as the
roots themselves, will be deleted.
o a boolean value, which if TRUE will cause "rmtree" to print a message each time it examines a file, giving the name of the file, and
indicating whether it's using "rmdir" or "unlink" to remove it, or that it's skipping it. (defaults to FALSE)
o a boolean value, which if TRUE will cause "rmtree" to skip any files to which you do not have delete access (if running under VMS) or
write access (if running under another OS). This will change in the future when a criterion for 'delete permission' under OSs other
than VMS is settled. (defaults to FALSE)
It returns the number of files successfully deleted. Symlinks are simply deleted and not followed.
NOTE: If the third parameter is not TRUE, "rmtree" is unsecure in the face of failure or interruption. Files and directories which were
not deleted may be left with permissions reset to allow world read and write access. Note also that the occurrence of errors in rmtree can
be determined only by trapping diagnostic messages using $SIG{__WARN__}; it is not apparent from the return value. Therefore, you must be
extremely careful about using "rmtree($foo,$bar,0" in situations where security is an issue.
AUTHORS
Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> and Charles Bailey <bailey@newman.upenn.edu>
perl v5.8.0 2002-06-01 File::Path(3pm)