find and delete empty dirs, start in current working dir

find . -empty -type d -exec rmdir {} +

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.

By: jsiei97

2009-08-04 16:55:34

find rmdir

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Recursively remove all empty directories
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -type d -empty -delete

jmcantrell · 2010-03-23 15:21:33 21
find and delete empty dirs, start in current working dir
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -type d -empty -delete

wincus · 2010-01-14 15:56:20 10
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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} +

grokskookum · 2009-08-05 13:48:13 8
find and delete empty directories recursively
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perl -MFile::Find -e"finddepth(sub{rmdir},'.')"

igorfu · 2011-05-23 08:45:59 5
Recursively remove all empty directories

This will check if there are any empty directories, or newly emptied directories, in a list of directories. It will then delete all of those directories. It works with gnu find and OSX/BSD find.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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for foo in <list of directories>; do while find $foo -type d -empty 2>/dev/null| grep -q "."; do find $foo -type d -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir; done; done

ClashTheBunny · 2012-05-23 08:09:16 7

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