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> >Using SCO 5.x (usally 5.0.5 or better) is there a way to quickly
> >find and delete all empty directories within a certain directory.
> >(By quickly I mean using the least amount of resoruces.)
>
>
> Brute force could be:
>
> find -d <appdirname> -type -d -exec rmdir {} \;
>
Bill,

Very nice!

Not to be picky, but if anyone wants to try the above command, there is a
"d" missing after "-type" and SCO uses -depth instead of -d:

 find <dirname> -type d -depth -exec rmdir {}

Thanks,
Fabio

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