Subject: Removing empty directories on the IFS -- MIDRANGE-L

Don, this may be a bit of a longer resolution. I recently had to clean up many empty user
directories, folders, sub-folders.

2 suggestions:
First, there is a Window free utility WINDIRSTAT that will give you a look but it's slow and cumbersome.

Second, I used the EDTF '/' command.
Once it populates, put a 6 next to each DIR. It can be I/O intensive. I usually display several DIR's at a time.

From there you can drill down into each DIR and see where files live, if any and recursively delete.

I used this method and it took a few days to get through the cleanup but it worked well.

Kinda looks like this:

Directory: /
Position to : Record : 17 of
New File :
2=Edit 4=Delete File 5=Display 6=Path Size 9=Recursive Delete

Opt Name Size Owner Changed Used CCSID or Symbolic Link
BARWIDE *DIR QNOTES 08/09/19 23:36 01/31/21 13:16
Bytware *DIR STANDGUARD 08/09/19 23:36 01/31/21 13:22
CMOMembers *DIR AITMGRP 08/09/19 23:36 01/31/21 13:16

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Option 6 on Bytware

Directory: /
Position to : Record : 17 of
New File :
2=Edit 4=Delete File 5=Display 6=Path Size 9=Recursive Delete

Opt Name Size Owner Changed Used CCSID or Symbolic Link
BARWIDE *DIR QNOTES 08/09/19 23:36 01/31/21 13:16
Bytware 4,842K STANDGUARD 08/09/19 23:36 01/31/21 13:22 SUBDIRECTORIES = 6, FILES = 7
CMOMembers *DIR AITMGRP 08/09/19 23:36 01/31/21 13:16

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Opt 5 on Bytware

Directory: /Bytware
Position to : Record : 1 of 2
New File :
2=Edit 4=Delete File 5=Display 6=Path Size 9=Recursive Delete

Opt Name Size Owner Changed Used CCSID or Symbolic Link
MPLUS *DIR QSYS 02/16/17 15:16 01/31/21 13:26
StandGuard *DIR STANDGUARD 02/05/05 07:54 01/31/21 13:26

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Opt 6 on both DIR's

Directory: /Bytware
Position to : Record : 1 of 2
New File :
2=Edit 4=Delete File 5=Display 6=Path Size 9=Recursive Delete

Opt Name Size Owner Changed Used CCSID or Symbolic Link
MPLUS 4,818K QSYS 02/16/17 15:16 01/31/21 13:26 SUBDIRECTORIES = 3, FILES = 7
StandGuard 16K STANDGUARD 02/05/05 07:54 01/31/21 13:26 SUBDIRECTORIES = 1, FILES = 0

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HTH .... MM

Very Respectfully,
Michael Mayer
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1. Removing empty directories on the IFS (Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L)

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date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 17:41:35 +1000
from: Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Removing empty directories on the IFS

I just completed a full system save on a system and there were over a million files in the IFS.

I now realise that the auto clean up was deleting files but not directories.

I now find the -empty option on the find tool is not available in IBMi in QSH

I have been using the find command as per the following example but it is only deleting files;

find /home -path '/home/*'
-type f -name '*.*' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;

I read that I can use -type d for directories but I still have not been able to get this to actually remove a directory.

I created the following directories

\test
\test\dir1
\test\dir1\file1.txt
\test\dir1\file2.txt

I then ran

find /test -path '/test/*'
-type f -name '*.*' -exec rm {} \;

And both of the files were deleted but the directories remained.

So I tried

find /test -path '/test/*'
-type d -name '*.*' -exec rm {} \;

And still the directories were not deleted.

System is V7R3 and PTF's updated 2 weeks ago.

Any suggestions gratefully accepted.

Thanks

Don

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