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From: pk on 14 May 2010 05:40
Stachu 'Dozzie' K. wrote:

> That would end the topic for me.

What a relief.

From: Randal L. Schwartz on 14 May 2010 09:06
>>>>> "James" == James <hslee911(a)yahoo.com> writes:

James> In unix, how to do efficiently
James> find and delete empty directories recursively

James> If no regular files (or symlink) present, it is considered as empty.
James> Directories with emtpy subdirectories are considered as empty
James> also.

find2perl . -depth -type d -eval rmdir | perl

*Very* efficient. Just ignores the errors. No forking.

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