a question for you shell scripters

[Monty J. Harder]

"Steven Elling" <ellings at kcnet.com> wrote:

> The `-links' and `-empty' options to find will not work in this case
because
> there could be a branch with subdirectories but no files anywhere in the
> branch.  The branch would have a indeterminate link count greater than 2
> and would not match the `-empty' option.

  Unless you also use the -depth option, which forces the search to examine
the contents of the directory before the directory itself.