On 1/18/21 8:08 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 1/17/21 11:18 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
find DIR -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} +
find(1) can also find empty directories and delete them:
$ find DIR -type d -empty -delete
Thanks, I'd forgotten about that.
I added the attached to the manual,
On 1/18/21 2:53 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
Except that 'find DIR -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} +'
is anything but simple and not something anyone outside of
a minority of *nix users would have a clue about how to create, whereas
'rmdir -r DIR' is both direct and simple and
more easily understandable
On 18/01/2021 20:15, L A Walsh wrote:
On 2021/01/18 08:08, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
find(1) can also ... [various examples of find's usefulness elided]
Have a nice day,
Berny
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As I stated in the original message:
On 2021/01/16 16:29, L A Walsh wrote:
Yes, you could do it some
Am 18.01.21 um 11:53 schrieb L A Walsh:
Except that 'find DIR -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} +'
is anything but simple and not something anyone outside of
a minority of *nix users would have a clue about how to create, whereas 'rmdir
-r DIR' is both direct and simple and
more easily
On 2021/01/18 08:08, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
find(1) can also ... [various examples of find's usefulness elided]
Have a nice day,
Berny
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As I stated in the original message:
On 2021/01/16 16:29, L A Walsh wrote:
Yes, you could do it some other way, like by using 'find',
but
Except that 'find DIR -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} +'
is anything but simple and not something anyone outside of
a minority of *nix users would have a clue about how to
create, whereas 'rmdir -r DIR' is both direct and simple and
more easily understandable by those who know how to remove
a
On 1/16/21 4:29 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Yes, you could do it some other way, like by using 'find'
That's what I'd do, yes. 'find DIR -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} +'. I
doubt whether it's worth hacking on this at the C level (complicating
the documentation too) when there's such a simple and
Every once in a while, I want to remove what I believe to be
an empty directory tree, safely.
I wondered, why not have rmdir have a recursive option
that would remove all directories under a given directory,
presuming they were empty. That way I can try to remove
the tree, removing what it can,
