[wellylug] Empty Directories

Richard Hector richard at walnut.gen.nz
Tue Apr 4 16:58:40 NZST 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:14 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:04 +1200, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> > Hi geniuses ... and anyone else who may be able to answer ...
> > 
> > How can I go about finding all directories in a filesystem that are empty?
> 
> How well does
> 
> find / -type d -links 2

As Michael has pointed out off list, that doesn't account for _files_
being in there. Sorry about that :-)

Richard





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