Deleting directories

Paul Chamberlain tif at doorstop.austin.ibm.com
Wed Jul 11 03:05:46 AEST 1990


In article <37481 at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> ashish at janus.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Ashish Mukharji) writes:
>... but deleting the resulting (empty) directory structure presents
>a greater problem. ...

Isn't this what -depth does for find:

	find . -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} \;

I'd try this but "-depth" has absolutely no noticeable effect on my RT.

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