Deleting directories

[william E Davidsen]

In article <1990Jul10.130548.10216 at cbnewsj.att.com>, ecl at cbnewsj.att.com
(Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:

|> I should say RTFM, but:
|> 	find top-directory-name -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} \;
|> 
|> The -depth goes postorder.
|> The rmdir will fail on any non-empty directories.

  If you're on a machine with xargs it will go a LOT faster for big
trees if you say:

    find top-dir -type d -depth -print | xargs rmdir

  The suggested solution will work perfectly, but will run rmdir for
EVERY directory. xargs allows doing a bunch with each process.
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