Reco wrote: > Dennis Wicks wrote: > > I'd like to be able to scan a Volume or directory and find > > all directories that have only one item in them. Either > > directory or file. > > Try this (yep, links should be 3, not 1): > > find <where_you_want_to_search> -type d -links 3 Good try. That will almost work. Using -links 3 will find any directory that has exactly one directory in it. But it won't match exactly one file in a directory. It is the ".." link from the subdirectory up that increases the link count from 2 to 3. But files don't create links to the directory and therefore don't increase the link count. The size of the directory isn't of help either. I think the only way is to actually list each directory in turn and count. Perhaps someone else will have a better idea. Bob
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