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(the semicolon ends the -exec portion of the find. ... the backslash is
there to protect it from shell interpretation)

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

"Return a list of all directories below the current directory, traversing
the tree depth-first, and against each directory execute the command rmdir
"

In other words, delete all directories below the current one.

The dir would have to be empty.

The \; is part of the script, a snippet of which you are showing us.

RTFM ... 'man find' :)


On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 4:57 PM, tim <iseriesstuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can someone tell me what this does?

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



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