On 23-09-2009, at 08h 21'35", Kyle Wheeler wrote about "Re: How to remove empty
maildir?"
> On Wednesday, September 23 at 08:16 PM, quoth Wu, Yue:
> >Hi, list, question is how to use some commands(i.g. shell commands) to remove
> >the empty maildirs, i.e. no any file in maildirs' new/ cur/ and tmp/?
>
> If you know it won't be re-created or delivered to while you're
> fussing with it, you can just use `rm -r maildirname` or even `rmdir
> maildirname/new maildirname/cur maildirname/tmp maildirname`
>
To remove all empty directories just type
rm -rf `find -type d -empty`
or
find -type d -empty -exec \rm -fr {} \;
at your (ba)sh prompt.
Ionel
