[wellylug] Empty Directories

Ian Beardslee itb at falcons.co.nz
Wed Apr 5 08:42:34 NZST 2006



-----Original Message-----
From: michael
To: Wellington Linux Users Group <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:16:11 +1200
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Empty Directories

> "Ian Beardslee" writes:
> >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?
> 
>     find <filesystem> -type d -empty
> 
> Will produce a list of all empty directories.
> 
>     find <filesystem> -type f -empty
> 
> Will produce a list of all empty files.

Excellent, thanks for that, worked a treat.  Of course I then had to work 
out how to mount a windows share ... but that is another story :-)





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