#!/bin/sh # Use this script to tidy up a directory tree after deleting files (e.g. # when uninstalling MuseScore). The script takes as argument a path (or # a space-delimited list of paths) to recently deleted files: # e.g. "/usr/local/share/mscore-dev-2.1/manual/plugins/harmony.html" # If the file still exists nothing happens. If it's parent directory is # empty then that is deleted. The parent's parent is deleted if it is # now empty, and so on until all empty parents in the path are deleted. numempty=0 for filepath in "$@" ; do #echo "File: $filepath" dirpath=$(dirname "$filepath") while true ; do #echo "Directory: $dirpath" rmdir "$dirpath" 2>/dev/null || continue 2 # Note: this is safe because `rmdir` only removes empty directories. #echo "Removed empty directory: $dirpath" numempty=$(($numempty+1)) dirpath=$(dirname "$dirpath") done done echo "$0: $numempty empty directories were removed."