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Finding empty directiories in bash

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gistfile1.sh

	for dir in `find . -type d \| tail -n +2`; do
	[ "`find $dir -type f \| wc -l`" -eq "0" ] && echo "$dir is empty"
	done

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rajsahae commented Sep 20, 2013

I also used:

find . -type d -empty -delete

That seems to be way better.

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