On 06Dec2007 21:15, A Darren Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > >> chmod a-w dir/new
| > >> if [ `find dir -type f` ] ; then
| > >
| > > You have to do something like this instead:
| [snip other responses]
|
| Perhaps I've misunderstood the reason for doing this, but I would just
| ask find to do a rmdir, and let it fail if the directory isn't empty.
|
| find dir -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} \;
|
| If 'dir' is still around when that finishes, it's probably because
| there's a file in there now. In the meantime, it's removed all empty
| subtrees.
Yeah, but without even invoking find:
rmdir dir/new dir/tmp dir/cur dir \
|| mkdir -p dir/new dir/tmp dir/cur
Robust, safe, trivial.
People always seem to forget that rmdir is perfectly safe, in that it
won't remove empty directories.
Cheers,
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