From: Mark Geisert <mark@maxrnd.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: (SOLVED) RFE: find <path> -d -size 0 => doesn't find empty directories
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 05:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77532797-caed-785e-c774-b415ec72a4f0@maxrnd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5BDB297B.4050401@tlinx.org>
L A Walsh wrote:
> On 10/31/2018 9:39 PM, Mark Geisert wrote:
>
>>
>> I shouldn't have blindly trusted the Subject:.
> ---
> You did and gave the right answer. I had forgotten about
> empty -- though not sure why. I guess I usually only use it for file
> normally. For empty directories under /tmp, I usually use 'rmdir *'.
What I meant was, I blindly trusted "-d" to select directories. It doesn't.
One has to explicitly say '-type d' to do that. 'man find' explains.
Cheers,
..mark
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-02 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-31 23:02 L A Walsh
2018-11-01 0:02 ` Norton Allen
2018-11-01 1:16 ` Mark Geisert
2018-11-01 4:40 ` Mark Geisert
2018-11-01 16:27 ` (SOLVED) " L A Walsh
2018-11-02 5:33 ` Mark Geisert [this message]
2018-11-01 16:20 ` Andrey Repin
2018-11-02 5:05 ` Brian Inglis
2018-11-02 14:05 ` Andrey Repin
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