Sorry, poorly worded.
I want to to loop a given structure and remove ..... /[specific, named]
/..... (non-empty) directories below the top dir
Kyle
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On 22-05-2014 14:12, Amos Shapira wrote:
What's the context of this question? Do you really want to keep all
empty directories?
"-delete" will fail on non-empty directories. Use "-print0 -prune |
xargs -0 rm -rf" to stop find from scanning the doomed directory.
On 22 May 2014 09:10, "Kyle" <k...@attitia.com <mailto:k...@attitia.com>>
wrote:
Hi folks,
I was wondering what is the best (as in most efficient method) for
doing an automated, scheduled recursive search and DEL exercise.
The scheduled part is just a cron job, no problem. But what's the
most efficient method to loop a given structure and remove all
(non-empty) directories below the top dir?
The 3 examples I've come up with are;
find <top_dir> -name <name_to_find_and_DEL> -exec rm -rf {} \;
- what's the '\' for and is it necessary?
rm -rf `find <top_dir> -type d -name <name_to_find_and_DEL>` -
does it actually require the ' ` ' or are ' ' ' good enough?
find <top_dir> -name '<name_to_find_and_DEL>' -type d -delete -
or won't this work for a non-empty dir?
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