Re: Removing empty directories on the IFS

[Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried the rmdir and get the following error - any thoughts ?

find /msdtest -path '/msdtest/*'  
                  -type d    -exec rmdir {} \;  
find: 001-0023 Error found opening file /msdtest/dir1. No such path or 
directory. 
find: 001-0023 Error found opening file /msdtest/dir2. No such path or 
directory. 
find: 001-0023 Error found opening file /msdtest/dir3. No such path or 
directory. 
find: 001-0023 Error found opening file /msdtest/dir4. No such path or 
directory. 
$  

Don





From:   "Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:     midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:   02/02/2021 02:45 AM
Subject:        Re: Removing empty directories on the IFS
Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



He's doing '-type d', so I think rmdir is exactly what he wants.

Granted, it'll fail if there's anything in the directory, but that's 
probably a good thing in this case.


On 2/1/21 7:05 AM, Kevin Bucknum wrote:
> rmdir instead of rm would probably work for the specific example you 
have here. Also, if you use the find available in the RPM packages, it 
does have the empty.
>