Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 17:32:42 BST From: Michael Ryan <mike@NetworX.ie> To: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.com> Cc: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting a Link Farm Message-ID: <ECS9607271742B@NetworX.ie>
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I think the following will do what you want. Enjoy.
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#! /bin/sh --
#
# Remove all empty directories in the list of directories
# supplied. If a directory which is empty is a sub-directory
# of a directory with nothing but that sub-directory in it,
# the parent directory gets deleted also.
#
# The -symlink flag causes directories with only symbolic
# links in them to also be deleted.
#
#
# MikeRyan, 26jul96.
# Remove symlinks only.
rm_symlinks () {
find $* -type l -print | xargs rm -f
}
# Remove empty directories in an inverse-recursive way.
rm_edirs () {
find $* -depth -type d -print |
while read dir; do
nfiles=`ls -lA $dir | egrep -v '^total ' | wc -l`
test $nfiles -eq 0 && {
echo Removing $dir
rmdir $dir
}
done
}
test $# -eq 0 && {
echo Usage: rmedir dir ...
exit 1
}
test "$1" = -symlink && {
shift
rm_symlinks $*
}
rm_edirs $*
exit 0
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On Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:18:03 -0400 (EDT) Marc Ramirez wrote:
> > Is there an easier way, or a way to remove only empty directories and
> > leave those with regular files?
>
> find /usr/ports -type l -exec rm {} \;
>
> will delete all symbolic links.
Mike
<mike@NetworX.ie>
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