From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11595 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2005 11:59:40 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 19 Nov 2005 11:59:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 27865 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2005 11:59:33 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 19 Nov 2005 11:59:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 21269 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2005 11:59:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9695 Received: (qmail 21254 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2005 11:59:28 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 19 Nov 2005 11:59:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 26889 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2005 11:59:28 -0000 Received: from berlioz.imada.sdu.dk (130.225.128.12) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 19 Nov 2005 11:59:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.imada.sdu.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F496273C for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:59:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from berlioz.imada.sdu.dk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (berlioz.imada.sdu.dk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id 06837-04 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from erda.imada.sdu.dk (erda.imada.sdu.dk [130.225.128.195]) by berlioz.imada.sdu.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AEEC6270C for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:59:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by erda.imada.sdu.dk (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:59:27 +0100 Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:59:27 +0100 From: Thor Andreassen To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: listing/deleting empty directories recursively Message-ID: <20051119115926.GB329@imada.sdu.dk> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk References: <200511191057.25776.cht@chello.at> <103un195cji6u17l0kj1ijkvfj2vn9o3r5@4ax.com> <20051119115653.GA329@imada.sdu.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051119115653.GA329@imada.sdu.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at 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