Re: listing/deleting empty directories recursively

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 19, 11:28am, zzapper wrote:
} Subject: Re: listing/deleting empty directories recursively
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} >ls -ld **/*(/^F)
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} Now I'd like to rm those directories, and log which ones were deleted. 

On a GNU-ish system?

    rmdir --verbose **/*(/^F)

You can work out the stderr redirections yourself.

Of course you realize that this only finds/removes empty leaf directories.
Every time you remove a directory you might discover that its parent has
also become empty.  For that reason you might be better off doing a depth-
first traversal attempting to remove *all* directories, and simply allow
rmdir to fail if the directory isn't empty.

    rmdir --verbose **/*(/od)