Re: Joe [and MANY others] doesn't delete its config directory[ies] on purge

[Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:44:05AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> Yes, but you should run that tricks more and more times.
> Some dirs contains dirs which contain empty dirs ;)
> So the script is
> 
> while [ `find /etc -type d -empty|wc -l` != 0 ]
> do
> 	find /etc -type d -empty|xargs rmdir
> done

Or you could use -depth.

(It'd also fail on directories beginning with a hyphen without "rmdir
--", when there are no matching directories without xargs -r, and
fail on directories with spaces in the filename without -print0/-0.)

This shouldn't be necessary, of course (ideally, empty config dirs
shouldn't be left behind in the first place), but it's not something I'm
going to lose any sleep over.

-- 
Glenn Maynard