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From: davidsen@antarctica.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Deleting directories
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Date: 11 Jul 90 14:47:20 GMT
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In article <1990Jul10.130548.10216@cbnewsj.att.com>, ecl@cbnewsj.att.com
(Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:

|> I should say RTFM, but:
|> 	find top-directory-name -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} \;
|> 
|> The -depth goes postorder.
|> The rmdir will fail on any non-empty directories.

  If you're on a machine with xargs it will go a LOT faster for big
trees if you say:

    find top-dir -type d -depth -print | xargs rmdir

  The suggested solution will work perfectly, but will run rmdir for
EVERY directory. xargs allows doing a bunch with each process.
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Bill Davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com, uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
  GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is it's own reward" -me