[olug] Challenge: Prune a directory tree

[Daniel Linder]

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<quote who="David Walker">
>  find . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
> works. but generates an error for each file deleted
> not recursive.  must be run repeatedly until complete

If you add the "-depth" option, then it will work from the farthest
subdirectory backward and not require a second run to cleanup.

Dan

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