a script to remove empty directories

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Andreas Seidl wrote:

> Bruce Ingalls wrote:
>
> > Anyhow, here is an elegant, working solution. If no optional dir is
> > passed, then the current dir is checked recursively, and empty
> > subdirectories are passed.
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > ROOT=${1:-.}
> > if [ ! -d $ROOT ];then ROOT=.;fi
> > find $ROOT -type d -empty|xargs rmdir -f
>
> Meanwhile I was able to overcome the spaces in filenames problem, and,
> funny enough, i used wc -l as in the script posted by Volker for testing
> a directory to be empty. But I use recursion, which is bad for
> incorporation in other scripts. Anyway, below is, just for the records,
> my meanwhile obsolete solution.
>
> Your version is much faster (but has problems with spaces) than my
> version and the version posted by Volker. (e.g. 4s versus 50s).

Here's a variant of the above that works with spaces in filenames (but
doesn't delete directories that contain only empty directories):

find $ROOT -depth -type d -empty -print0 |xargs -0 rmdir -f

However, does anyone care to submit a patch to the generic-build-script?
	Igor
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