UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi
I'm trying to remove empty sub-folders from 1 main folder using the find method, but the "- empty" parameter isn't recognized by my Unix version.
Any idea how to implement such thing?
Thanks.

You can use the below command

Code:

find ./ -type d -exec rmdir 2>/dev/null {} \;

The above will remove all empty directories from the current directory.

To clarify this, the rmdir command should fail if the directory isn't empty. So by ignoring error messages (redirecting them to a black hole, /dev/null), you will successfully delete the empty ones and the non-empty ones shouldn't be in any danger.

It would probably be a good idea to put dummy data into a directory and try to use rmdir on it, just to make sure your environment behaves this way. But it's the default, so it should be fine.

ShawnMilo

Thank you both for the solution & clarification.