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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting remove empty directory Post 302171751 by sirrtuan on Friday 29th of February 2008 11:09:29 AM
Old 02-29-2008
remove empty directory
Hi,
I need to delete an empty directory in a temp directory except "dir5" (keep everything that is not empty).
Plese advise.

Here is an example of my directory.

/dir/temp/
dir1 - delete if this is empty
dir2 - delete if this is empty
dir3 - delete if this is empty
dir4 - delete if this is empty
dir5 - I don't want to delete this folder at all.

Here is what I got so far

Code:
if [ "$(ls -1 /dir/temp |grep -v "dir5")" ]
then
        echo "directory is Not Empty"
        rmdir $(ls -1 /dir/temp |grep -v "dir5")
else
        echo "this directory is Empty"
        rmdir $(ls -1 /dir/temp |grep -v "dir5")
fi

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-09-2009 at 08:22 AM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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