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Created April 4, 2014 06:27
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A one-liner to recursively delete empty directories with Ruby
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rmempty.rb
Dir['**/'].reverse_each { |d| Dir.rmdir d if Dir.entries(d).size == 2 }
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This likely only works on a *nix flavored OS.

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