Remove empty directory

[Mah_1]

Hi ,

Can anyone tell me how to remove empty directories which are created before 30 days .
ie i have to remove empty directores from /usr1 filesystem.

Thanks

[Kranti Mahmud]

Hi mah,


Please execute the following command:

enter the diectory and execute: ls -al

If the directory is empty then execute:

rm -rf /user1

Rgds-kranti

[Mah_1]

There are lakhs of directories.
i want a command which will find out and delete those dirs.

[Mark McDonald_2]

I dont think I can do it with 1 command, you will need a script.

for DIR in $(find /usr1 -type d - mtime +30)
do
cd $DIR
EMPTY=`ls`
if [[ $EMPTY = "" ]]
then

rm $DIR
fi
done


You will need to tweak this before running on a live system. I am not in front of a unix box to get the commands exactly.

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

Mark gave you the find command.
Do delete empty dirs check the command 'rmdir' - this command deletes empty directories (see 'man rmdir').

make a test before ...

HTH
Volkmar

[Matthias Zander]

all in one:

find /usr1 -type d -mtime +30 -depth -exec rmdir {} \; 2>/dev/null

[Mah_1]

thanks

[Dennis Handly]

>Matthias: find /usr1 -type d -mtime +30 -depth -exec rmdir {} \; 2>/dev/null

You might want to just redirect rmdir errors and not find errors. And use + for performance:
find /usr1 -type d -mtime +30 -depth -exec rmdir {} 2> /dev/null +

[Dennis Handly]

>ME: You might want to just redirect rmdir errors and not find errors.

Oops, the only way to get this to work is to create a script to do the rmdir and then redirect stderr:
find /usr1 -type d -mtime +30 -depth -exec rmdir_script {} +

rmdir_script:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
rmdir "$@" 2> /dev/null