From: Thor Andreassen <ta@imada.sdu.dk>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: listing/deleting empty directories recursively
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:59:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051119115926.GB329@imada.sdu.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051119115653.GA329@imada.sdu.dk>
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:56:53PM +0100, Thor Andreassen wrote:
[snip]
> This should do the trick:
>
> for dir in `ls -ld **/*(/^F)`; do echo $dir > LOGFILE; rmdir $dir; done
You should use double quotes (") around the dir variable if you have
dirnames with spaces (and some other chars), i.e. echo "$dir" and rmdir
"$dir".
--
Thor Andreassen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-19 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-19 9:19 zzapper
2005-11-19 9:57 ` Christian Taylor
2005-11-19 11:28 ` zzapper
2005-11-19 11:56 ` Thor Andreassen
2005-11-19 11:59 ` Thor Andreassen [this message]
2005-11-19 12:48 ` Christian Taylor
2005-11-19 14:54 ` Thorsten Kampe
2005-11-19 15:59 ` Stephane Chazelas
2005-11-19 14:39 ` Lloyd Zusman
2005-11-19 16:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-11-19 17:07 ` zzapper
2005-11-19 19:39 ` Bart Schaefer
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2005-11-18 19:49 zzapper
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