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Re: Tip of the day: prune empty directory hierarchies

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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Tip of the day: prune empty directory hierarchies
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:43:50 +0100
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2015-06-29 15:59:27 +0100, Peter Stephenson:
[...]
> local -aU dirs
> 
> dirs=(**/*(ND/^F))
> while (( ${#dirs} )); do
>   rmdir $dirs || return
[...]

Missing -- above.

With GNU `find`:

find . -depth -type d -empty -delete

-- 
Stephane

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