>From PC magazine on a simple way to do it through the command line. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200302/ai_ziff35243
> I'm looking for a program that can delete any folders that are empty or > that contain only empty subfolders. Can you help? > > M. V. Weir > > You don't need a program; you can do this at the command prompt. Open a > command prompt window and navigate to the root folder of the drive in > question. Enter this command: > > DIR /AD/B/S | SORT /R > EMPTIES.BAT > > The file EMPTIES.BAT now contains a list of all folders on your hard > drive in reverse order. Use Word or another editor to put the filenames > in quotes and add the prefix RD (with a space after RD) to every line in > the file. In Word, you can do this easily by using Find and Replace to > search for ^p (which represents the paragraph mark) and replace it with > "^pRD " (quote, p, R, D, space quote), then hand-correct the first and > last lines of the file if necessary. Save the modified EMPTIES .BAT > file and exit your editor. Then simply launch the batch file. It will > attempt the RD (remove directory) command on each folder, but the > command will fail for any folder that is not empty. > > How does it work? For the DIR command, the switch /AD means select > files whose attributes include the Directory attribute (in other words, > folders). The /B switch means give a "bare" listingĀjust the > filenameĀand /S means look in subfolders, too (which, incidentally, > modifies /B, so it shows the full pathname). The output is piped (|) as > input to the SORT command. Not surprisingly, the switch /R means sort in > reverse. Finally, the output of SORT is redirected (>) into the file > EMPTIES.BAT. Because we're sorting in reverse, every folder's > subfolders precede it in the list. If they are empty, then by the time > the parent folder is processed, it too will be empty. You'd be > surprised at what you can do with simple commands! Might want to test it first. ;) -- ob_kook SB2 --> Axiom passive pre --> Portal Paladin monoblocks --> Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MKII ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ob_kook's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39488
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