Shell Programming and Scripting

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

Would be good to see what you've already attempted in terms of the script you've written so far.

!/bin/ksh

find $1 -type d | while read D
do
ls -lrt $D | grep "total 0"
done


You enter the directory name as paramet $1 for the directory to search. This just lists "total 0" for all directories if it finds total 0. However, I think that I should:

1. perform test to see if "total 0" is found
2. output directory to log file if true
3. send email at end.

Code:

!/bin/ksh

find $1 -type d | while read D
do
   ls -lrt $D | grep -i -q "total 0"
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
      echo $D
   fi
done  > logfile
/usr/bin/mailx -s "Zero directories", man80@foo.com  < logfile

play around with this and see if it helps.

Nice one jim!