delete-empty

delete-empty

Recursively delete all empty folders in a directory and child directories.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save delete-empty

Usage

var deleteEmpty = require('delete-empty');

API

Given the following directory structure, the highlighted directories would be deleted.

foo/
└─┬ a/
-  ├── aa/
  ├── bb/
  │ └─┬ bbb/
  │   ├── one.txt
  │   └── two.txt
-  ├── cc/
-  ├ b/
-  └ c/

async

deleteEmpty('foo/', function(err, deleted) {
  console.log(deleted);
  //=> ['foo/aa/', 'foo/a/cc/', 'foo/b/', 'foo/c/']
});

sync

deleteEmpty.sync('foo/');

As with the async method, an array of deleted directories is returned, in case you want to log them out or provide some kind of feedback to the user.

var deleted = deleteEmpty.sync('foo/');
console.log(deleted);
//=> ['foo/aa/', 'foo/a/cc/', 'foo/b/', 'foo/c/']

About

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Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Contributors

Commits	Contributor
17	jonschlinkert
1	svenschoenung
1	vpalmisano

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.

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