Re: (SOLVED) RFE: find <path> -d -size 0 => doesn't find empty directories

[Mark Geisert <mark at maxrnd dot com>]

L A Walsh wrote:
> On 10/31/2018 9:39 PM, Mark Geisert wrote:
>
> > I shouldn't have blindly trusted the Subject:.
> ---
>     You did and gave the right answer.  I had forgotten about
> empty -- though not sure why.  I guess I usually only use it for file
> normally. For empty directories under /tmp, I usually use 'rmdir *'.

What I meant was, I blindly trusted "-d" to select directories.  It doesn't. 
One has to explicitly say '-type d' to do that.  'man find' explains.
Cheers,

..mark


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