Finding empty directories

Martux · Veteran Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1917

Hello guys!
I had a huge bunch of music copied from my Gentoo box to a smb share. It didn't showed up any errors but unfortunately some folders are just empty at the destination. This is probably due to unsupported characters and/or the length of some paths.
The structure is like this:
/music/interpret/album
What I want to accomplish is to find all the /album folders that are empty.
How can this be done on the shell? Thanks!
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

I'm sure there is something to be done with `find`, but: can you be sure only full albums are missing, and not also single tracks? I would use rsync to make sure the task is completed, it also supports filename conversion.

Naib · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 9:57 am Post subject:

find . -type d -empty
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Martux · Veteran Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1917

That's a good point. I am afraid, the errors have already been deployed throughout my whole backup structure. Will try that find command for sure.
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Martux · Veteran Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1917

That gave a reasonable result and showed some of the dirs I was already aware of.
This is imho one of the biggest downsides of rsync. If e.g. the filesystem is corrupt, you will not recognize it until it's too late. That's why I was investigating a decent cloud service, but they all seem to suck for one of these reasons: pricing, privacy, no rsync, horrible apps.
Basically I am just looking for something to keep 3 PCs on sync with certain directiries in a LAN.
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