Re: linux command question

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Return a list of all directories below the current directory, traversing
the tree depth-first, and against each directory execute the command rmdir"

In other words, delete all directories below the current one.

The dir would have to be empty.

The \; is part of the script, a snippet of which you are showing us.

RTFM ... 'man find' :)


On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 4:57 PM, tim <iseriesstuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Can someone tell me what this does?
>
> cd /clients
> find . -type d -depth -exec rmdir {} \;
>
>
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