Is there a way to delete all empty sub-directories below a given directory from a batch file?
Or is it possible to recursively copy a directory, but excluding any empty directories?
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A:
To copy ignoring empty dirs you can use one of:
robocopy c:\source\ c:\dest\ * /s
xcopy c:\source c:\dest\*.* /s
Alex K.
2010-04-23 11:01:25
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A:
xcopy's /s will ignore blank folder when copying
xcopy * path\to\newfolder /s /q
S.Mark
2010-04-23 11:01:44
Why use external dir command when FOR has directory support with /D and /R ?
Anders
2010-04-23 13:27:06
Thanks for pointing out @Anders, its just my knowledge about batch commands are limited, +1ed to yours. I've learnt something more now. Thanks.
S.Mark
2010-04-23 14:22:52
@S.Mark: Now that I have looked at it a bit more, your FOR code has several issues: 1)Spaces in paths. 2)Are you sure DIR will print the deepest folder first? If not, c:\folder1\folder2 will fail if folder2 is empty and folder1 only has folder2.
Anders
2010-04-23 14:44:14
@Anders, yeah, thats why I noted it is not recursive. DIR does not print deepest folder first with above usage. To remove folder1, script need to run 2 times. anyway, I'm going **remove** `for` part now. thanks again.
S.Mark
2010-04-23 15:14:56
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A:
@echo off
setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS
call :rmemptydirs "%~1"
goto:EOF
:rmemptydirs
FOR /D %%A IN ("%~1\*") DO (
REM recurse into subfolders first...
call :rmemptydirs "%%~fA"
)
RD "%~f1" >nul 2>&1
goto:EOF
Call with: rmemptydirs.cmd "c:\root dir to delete empty folders in"
Anders
2010-04-23 13:26:19