<snip>
RTFM ... 'man find' :)
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Jack,
This list exists to help one another. My sense was Tim truly did not
understand the command. For that matter while I knew it was looking for and
removing empty directories, I did not know the last bit you mentioned about
the \:. You gave an excellent explanation of the line of code.
The MAN pages are written by experts for people who already know the content
and are just looking to confirm or find a new function, therefore almost
useless to the novice in Unix/Linux. In my view that makes them completely
worthless for the type of question asked in this post.
I understand getting testy at times (I do it too) however a small amount of
retrospection might be in order since the MAN pages are so awful.
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack
Woehr
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2018 6:14 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: linux command question
"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?
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