Linda Walsh wrote:
> A useful thing to be a test on the number of non-structural entries
> in a directory.
>
> By non structural, it would work like ls -A, and not include entries
> that are part of the directory structure like "." and ".." -- with
> the idea of being able to quickly determine if a directory is empty.
>
> Maybe 'inodes' with standard +/- adjectives
>
> So "find . -type d -inodes 0" would find all the empty dirs.
>
> Unless, of course this is already in there and I've missed it... but
> didn't see anything that would provide this w/o calling an external func
> on each dir...which really slows things down...
Do you mean something like find -empty?
-- Test: -empty
True if the file is empty and is either a regular file or a
directory. This might help determine good candidates for
deletion. This test is useful with `-depth' (*note Directories::)
and `-delete' (*note Single File::).
Example:
$ find . -empty
Bob
