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

rmdir instead of rm would probably work for the specific example you have here. Also, if you use the find available in the RPM packages, it does have the empty.

On Sun, 2021-01-31 at 17:46 +1000, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

More testing I tried the following;

find /msdtest -path '/msdtest/*'

-type d -exec rm {} \;

And I get the error which is suggesting a problem with the rm command ???

rm: 001-2139 The object /msdtest/dir1 is a directory. No such path or

directory.

rm: 001-2139 The object /msdtest/dir2 is a directory. No such path or

directory.

rm: 001-2139 The object /msdtest/dir3 is a directory. No such path or

directory.

rm: 001-2139 The object /msdtest/dir4 is a directory. No such path or

directory.

Don

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Date: 31/01/2021 05:42 PM

Subject: Removing empty directories on the IFS

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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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