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Old 07-21-2011
How to delete subdirectories that are more than 1 day old AND have NO files on them
Hi Experts ,

At a particular dir , How to delete subirectories that are more than 1 day old AND have NO files in them.
PS : -empty option is not working at my Sun OS version.
Thanks,

A
Last edited by ajaypatil_am; 07-21-2011 at 07:51 AM..
# 2  
Old 07-21-2011
Code:
find .. -type d -mtime +1 | while read d; do
  [ -z "`ls "$d"`" ] && echo rmdir "$d"
done

Try and if it works remove "echo".

PS It is unclear what it means - "1 day old" for directories. Maybe you want "ctime".
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ajaypatil_am
# 3  
Old 07-21-2011
thanks i mean the dirs which have lastupdated time stamp of NOT today.
e,g
Code:
drwxrwxr-x   2 4096 Jul 20 13:32 ACIFG021
drwxrwxr-x   2 4096 Jul 20 17:46 ACIFG022
drwxrwxr-x   2 4096 Jul 21 07:59 ACIFG023
drwxrwxr-x   2 4096 Jul 21 08:28 ACIFG024
drwxrwxr-x   3 4096 Jul 21 11:54 ACIFG025

the command should delete ACIFG021 and ACIFG022 if there any no files in any of the subdirs under them ...the command should not delete todays (21st july) dirs ACIFG023,ACIFG024 and ACIFG025.

Hope it is clear now.
Thanks,
A
Last edited by Scott; 07-21-2011 at 08:19 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 4  
Old 07-21-2011
Code:
find mydir -depth -empty -type d -exec rmdir {} \;

# 5  
Old 07-21-2011
where are you checking if file exists in that dir or not ? is it [ -z "`ls "$d"`" ] ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by yazu
Code:
find .. -type d -mtime +1 | while read d; do
  [ -z "`ls "$d"`" ] && echo rmdir "$d"
done

Try and if it works remove "echo".

PS It is unclear what it means - "1 day old" for directories. Maybe you want "ctime".
# 6  
Old 07-21-2011
Quote:
is it [ -z "`ls "$d"`" ] ?
Yes.
This User Gave Thanks to yazu For This Post:
ajaypatil_am
# 7  
Old 07-26-2011
thanks it worked ...2 more questions ....
1) now i want to delete ALL the dirs , suddirs in a particular dir ....i am using rm -rf dirname but it is taking very long time ...is there any faster way ? will following script faster ?

find . -type d | while read d; do

rm -rf "$d"
done

2) why rmdir -rf is not working for me ?.see below

> rmdir -rf DSF_DECOM
rmdir: illegal option -- r
rmdir: illegal option -- f
Usage: rmdir [-ps] dirname ...
> rmdir -r DSF_DECOM
rmdir: illegal option -- r
Usage: rmdir [-ps] dirname ...
> rmdir DSF_DECOM
rmdir: directory "DSF_DECOM": Directory not empty



Thanks,
A
Quote:
Originally Posted by yazu
Yes.
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