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Finding empty directiories in bash
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for dir in `find . -type d | tail -n +2`; do
[ "`find $dir -type f | wc -l`" -eq "0" ] && echo "$dir is empty"
done
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I also used:

find . -type d -empty -delete

That seems to be way better.

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