Editing Find (Unix) (section)

===Delete files and directories===
The <code>-delete</code> action is a GNU extension, and using it turns on <code>-depth</code>. So, if you are testing a find command with <code>-print</code> instead of <code>-delete</code> in order to figure out what will happen before going for it, you need to use <code>-depth -print</code>.

Delete empty files and print the names (note that <code>-empty</code> is a vendor unique extension from GNU <code>find</code> that may not be available in all <code>find</code> implementations):
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$ find . -empty -delete -print
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Delete empty regular files:
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$ find . -type f -empty -delete
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Delete empty directories:
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$ find . -type d -empty -delete
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Delete empty files named 'bad':
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$ find . -name bad -empty -delete
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Warning. — The <code>-delete</code> action should be used with conditions such as <code>-empty</code> or <code>-name</code>:
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$ find . -delete # this deletes all in .
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