Timeline for Recursively delete empty directories in Windows
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| Jun 21, 2015 at 3:35 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' |
Or use find (starting-directory) -depth -type d .... The -depth option tells find to do something like reverse the order of the output — it goes to the deepest directory levels first, then works its way back up.
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| Sep 12, 2009 at 1:52 | comment | added | Anthony Giorgio | I never knew about "tac" before. That's really nifty! | |
| Sep 11, 2009 at 22:56 | comment | added | Ryan C. Thompson | Not necessarily. That might not delete directories with only empty subdirectories. You might have to reverse it. find -type d -print0 | tac | xargs -0 rmdir | |
| Sep 11, 2009 at 21:50 | history | answered | Anthony Giorgio | CC BY-SA 2.5 |