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From: ashish@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Ashish Mukharji)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Deleting directories
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Date: 9 Jul 90 21:58:39 GMT
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Recently, I had to remove all of a user's files older than a 
certain date.  That was easily accomplished with find(1), but deleting the 
resulting (empty) directory structure presents a greater problem.  The user's 
home directory is the root of a large, mostly empty directory tree.  I want
to delete all directories that do not contain any regular files - find starts
with . and works its way down (inorder).  What I need is a way to do a 
postorder traversal of the directory structure.  Is there a simple way, short 
of writing a C routine?

-ashish

Tuberculosis.  It's what they used to call consumption.
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