Comments on: How to find empty folders on Linux

By: kepi

kepi — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:40:04 +0000

Even simpler and safer is

# find /path -type d -empty -delete

By: Antonio

Antonio — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:36:20 +0000

> # find /path -type d -empty -exec rm -rf {} \;

If we do this, we would have to search again for empty folders (those that just got empty by deleting empty folders inside).

Better try:

# find /path -depth -type d -empty -exec rm -r {} \;

“-depth” means “act on contents before the dir (work from the bottom up)”.

By: felipe1982

felipe1982 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:28:36 +0000

You should probably run
[code]
find -type d -empty -exec rmdir '{}' \;
[/code]
rmdir will only remove an empty directory, this adds some assurance (sanity) to the removal process. ‘{}’ will ensure strange directory names are ‘quoted’ and protected from your shell

By: Upendraya

Upendraya — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:11:08 +0000

I have posted a complete how-to for the linux newbs at LinuxBuzz.net

By: Maverick Prowls

Maverick Prowls — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:33:33 +0000

Thanks for this, just what I was looking for

By: waike

waike — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:17:31 +0000

you can easily found tons of similar tutorial.