Tag: directory
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Delete empty directories
Delete all empty directories found with find find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
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Getting size of a directory using du
Get the size of the current directory (.) or another one (foldername) with du command. du -sh . du -sh foldername
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Bash check if a directory exists
How to find if a directory exists in bash: DIR=”/etc” if [ -d $DIR ]; then echo “Folder ${DIR} exists” else echo “Folder ${DIR} does NOT exists” fi
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Find latest file in a directory methods
Sometimes there are so many files in a directory that it’s hard to find the last file in the directory. We show you here 2 ways for finding it out. With awk we print the last argument of the last line: $ ls -lrt | awk ‘{ f=$NF }; END{ print f }’ Reverse ordering…