{"id":2207,"date":"2021-09-23T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2021-09-23T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:31:04","slug":"the-process-of-finding-and-deleting-the-empty-directories-in-unix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/the-process-of-finding-and-deleting-the-empty-directories-in-unix\/","title":{"rendered":"The Process Of Finding And Deleting The Empty Directories In UNIX"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reason why it’s necessary to find out and delete the empty files in UNIX\/ LINUX operating system is that there may be problems with processing the multiple utilities which will also comprise of the rm command.<\/p>\n

The steps given below shows you to find and delete the empty files and directories:<\/h2>\n

find . -type d -empty \u2014 for directory
\nfind . -type f -empty \u2014 for files<\/p>\n

Delete the empty directories present under the \u2018current directory\u2019 with the use of the following command:<\/h3>\n

find . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \\;<\/p>\n

In order to check the count of files that are in use by the users, the following command can be used:<\/h3>\n

wc -l find . -type f -empty | wc -l
\n&
\nFor non-empty files count :
\nfind . -type f -not -empty | wc \u2013l<\/p>\n

In all the examples mentioned above, replace \u2018.-dot\u2019 with the directory absolute path under which you would like to search the files.<\/h3>\n

Note :<\/strong>\u00a0It is not advisable to remove empty directories from any system directories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reason why it’s necessary to find out and delete the empty files in UNIX\/ LINUX operating system is that there may be problems with processing the multiple utilities which will also comprise of the rm command. 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