ID

70dedac

date

2022-03-19 09:15:36+00:00

author

Alex Chan <alex@alexwlchan.net>

parent

28fb060

message

Add my script for removing empty directories

changed files

1 file, 33 additions

• emptydir

Changed files

emptydir (0) → emptydir (724)

diff --git a/emptydir b/emptydir
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+This script walks a directory tree, looks for empty directories,
+and removes them.
+
+It prints the name of every directory it removes.
+"""
+
+import os
+import shutil
+
+
+def can_be_deleted(d):
+    entries = os.listdir(d)
+    return entries == [".DS_Store"] or not entries
+
+
+def delete_directory(d):
+    assert can_be_deleted(d)
+    print(d)
+    shutil.rmtree(d)
+
+    # Was this the only entry in its parent directory?  Unwind one level
+    # to see if we can delete the parent also.
+    parent = os.path.dirname(d)
+    if can_be_deleted(parent):
+        delete_directory(parent)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    for d, _, _ in os.walk("."):
+        if can_be_deleted(d):
+            delete_directory(d)