Comments on: Linux how do I remove all empty directories?

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:30:24 +0000

Try:

for v in targetdir/*; do [ $(ls -lA $v | wc -l) -eq 1 ] && rmdir $v; done;

-A (almost all) option to ls reports hidden files (without . and .. entries). The for loop removes all empty directories.

By: Frolic

Frolic — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:48:57 +0000

find . -type d -empty | xargs rmdir can be faster than using -exec if you find a large number of directories. To be safe if your directory names contain spaces or other characters that act as word separators: find . -type d -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir The circular things are the digit zero, not the capital letter Oh. The -delete action mentioned above by Lingerance seems to be a nonstandard extension - GNU find doesn't know about it.

By: Lingerance

Lingerance — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:59:51 +0000

find . -type d -empty -delete

By: don

don — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:34:29 +0000

perl -MFile::Find -e “finddepth(sub{rmdir},’.')”

find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;

is easier