From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: listing/deleting empty directories recursively
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:59:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051119155944.GA4929@sc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511191348.29062.cht@chello.at>
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:48:29PM +0100, Christian Taylor wrote:
[...]
> for dir in **/*(/^F); do print $dir >> LOGFILE; rmdir $dir; done
>
> or with the alternative syntax I really like:
>
> for dir (**/*(/^F)) { print $dir >> LOGFILE; rmdir $dir }
>
> As far as I can see, filenames generated this way are already quoted
> correctly, so spaces and special characters shouldn't be an issue.
They will as you forgot the "-r" for print, and to mark the end
of options with "--" for both print and rmdir.
Moreover, note that that won't remove directories that only
contain empty directories, you may prefer:
zargs rmdir -- ./**/*(/od) 2> /dev/null
as rmdir won't remove non-empty dirs anyway.
--
Stéphane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-19 16:00 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
2005-11-19 12:48 ` Christian Taylor
2005-11-19 14:54 ` Thorsten Kampe
2005-11-19 15:59 ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
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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