find -inum option undocumented

glen at proexam.UUCP glen at proexam.UUCP
Tue Jul 15 00:40:51 AEST 1986


In article <625 at codas.ATT.UUCP> mikel at codas.UUCP writes:
>
>"   -depth	Always true; causes descent of the directory hierarchy to
>		be done so that all entries in a directory are acted on
>		before the directory itself. This can be helpful when _f_i_n_d
>		is used with _c_p_i_o_(_1_) to transfer files that are contained
>		in directories without write permission."
>-- 

Another use for this option is to clean out your disk directory hierarchy of
directories, empty except for other directories.

	find / -depth -type d -exec rmdir >& /dev/null
or better:
	find / -depth -type d -print | xargs rmdir >& /dev/null



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