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#1 (**permalink**) 09-06-2005, 08:47 PM

want to auto delete folder if its empty.... in order to do file system maintenance....to get rid of unused folders..

monk · #2 (**permalink**) 09-06-2005, 11:58 PM

Use rmdir as follows:

Code:

rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty {DIR-NAME}

It ignore each failure that is solely because a directory is non-empty

#3 (**permalink**) 09-08-2005, 01:21 PM

gr8...thanks monk,
sorry i didn't mention, that i am working on solaris 9.0, anyway ur suggestion was enogh to give me a hint and, this is what is working for me,

rmdir -ps {DIR-NAME}

monk · #4 (**permalink**) 09-08-2005, 06:02 PM

Hmm that's why you need to post it in solaris and not in shell scripting section

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