a question for you shell scripters

[Mike Coleman]

Jason Clinton <clintonj at umkc.edu> writes:
> How can I rmdir all subdirectories that have no files in them,
> recursively.

If you don't mind the half-assed error messages, you can just say

        $ find . -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} ;

A more correct solution with GNU find would be

        $ find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} ;

Gerald's -links idea would usually work as well, but I think some bizarre
filesystems won't necessarily have '.' and '..' entries.

Mike