Should recurse when searching for empty directories

[Endolith]

Binary package hint: fslint

When you are searching for empty directories, it should also display directories that *would* be empty if other empty directories inside them were deleted.

I use this tool in Windows, for instance:

http://www.jonasjohn.de/lab/red.htm

[Pádraig Brady (p-draigbrady)]

Good point.
Also there is no point reporting all empty dirs in a hierarchy I think, just the topmost.

[Endolith (endolith)]

upstream: http://code.google.com/p/fslint/issues/detail?id=15

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

should be fairly straight-forward. "find $DIR -type d -empty -delete" does exactly that.

[Endolith (endolith)]

"Also there is no point reporting all empty dirs in a hierarchy I think, just the topmost."

This is all I personally need, but it might still be a good idea to show the whole hierarchy. Sometimes empty directories have meaning or are necessary.

[Pádraig Brady (p-draigbrady)]

Yes Rolf it's easy to delete them but not report empty branches.
Anyway the just released 2.40 reports empty branches (the topmost only)

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

confirmed fixed for lucid