Deleting empty folders

Bertrand Caplet bertrand.caplet at chunkz.net
Wed Apr 1 08:15:08 UTC 2015


Le 2015-04-01 01:16, Samuel Williams a écrit :
> Hi Hardy, I had over 1600 folders, writing manually doveadm mailbox 
> delete
> would be a real pain. I guess I could script it but that's even more of 
> a
> pain. It would be nice if there was a command to remove empty mailboxes 
> or
> something similar.

Hi Samuel,

you could do:
  find -type d -name "* 1" -exec rmdir {} \;

instead of rm -r, this will delete only really empty directories (no 
files, no hidden files).

Have a good day,
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