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Created August 25, 2021 10:17
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Remove all empty directories in current directory (bash, zsh)
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rmemptydirs.sh
# Say you have a directory containing thousands of subdirectories. And you want to remove all empty ones.
# NOTE: It is not recursive.
for d in *; do [[ -d "${d}" ]] && [[ `ls "${d}" | wc -l` = "0" ]] && rmdir -v "${d}"; done
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