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Commands using rmdir

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mv .git .. && rm -rf * && mv ../.git . && mv .git/* . && rmdir .git && git config --bool core.bare true
2011-02-28 17:58:14
User: dinomite
Functions: mv rm rmdir
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Convert an existing Git repo to a bare repo

If you want to turn a Git repo into the origin that folks can push to, you should make it a bare repository. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199897/git-convert-normal-to-bare-repository

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find . ! -name "." -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv -n '{}' ..; rmdir "$PWD"
2010-12-15 22:12:06
User: bartonski
Functions: find mv rmdir xargs
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move contents of the current directory to the parent directory, then remove current directory.

Robust means of moving all files up by a directory. Will handle dot files, filenames containing spaces, and filenames with almost any printable characters. Will not handle filenames containing a single-quote (but if you are moving those, it's time to go yell at whoever created them in the first place).

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mv -n * ../; cd ..; rmdir $OLDPWD
2010-11-12 20:22:50
User: kevingranade
Functions: cd mv rmdir
Tags: mv rmdir
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move contents of the current directory to the parent directory, then remove current directory.

Avoid clobbering files by either overwriting due to name collisions or by assuming the command worked and deleting the target directory.

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find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} \;
2010-03-23 12:15:58
User: ZungBang
Functions: find rmdir
Tags: directories GNU/Linux rm
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Recursively remove all empty directories
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find . -type d | tac | xargs rmdir 2> /dev/null
2010-03-23 11:54:38
User: drmaciver
Functions: find rmdir tac xargs
Tags: directories GNU/Linux rm
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Recursively remove all empty directories

Remove all empty directories below the current directory. If directories become empty as the results of this, remove those too.

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rmdir **/*(/^F)
2009-08-22 12:31:55
User: unixmonkey5248
Functions: rmdir
Tags: find zsh rmdir
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Remove empty directories

It only works in zsh

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find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} +
2009-08-05 13:48:13
User: syssyphus
Functions: find rmdir
Tags: find
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find and delete empty directories recursively

this will show the names of the deleted directories, and will delete directories that only no files, only empty directories.

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find . -empty -type d -exec rmdir {} +
2009-08-04 16:55:34
User: jsiei97
Functions: find rmdir
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find and delete empty dirs, start in current working dir

A quick way to find and delete empty dirs, it starts in the current working directory.

If you do find . -empty -type d you will see what could be removed, or to a test run.

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find . -type d -exec rmdir {} \;
2009-05-19 08:59:15
User: sharfah
Functions: find rmdir
Tags: find rm
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Delete Empty Directories

Deletes empty directories and prints an error if directory is not empty.

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find . -regex "[^.]*" -depth -empty -type d -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -v {} \;
2009-03-24 15:41:29
User: piemme
Functions: find rmdir
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Delete empty, 24-hours-old directories recursively, without consider hidden directories
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find <top_level_dir> -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} \;
2009-03-02 16:59:08
User: eGGstain
Functions: find rmdir
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Delete empty directories recursively
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