PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

How to do it...

If you run the following recipe within the random lab directory, all of its empty subdirectories will be deleted. Follow these steps to get started:

1. Open a new file and paste the following content into it:

do {
    $AllDirectories = (Get-ChildItem -Path $HOME/random -Recurse -Directory).FullName
    $EmptyDirectories = $AllDirectories | Where-Object {(Get-ChildItem $PSItem).Count -eq 0}
    $EmptyDirectories | Remove-Item
} while ($EmptyDirectories.Count -gt 0)

2. Let's add some logging to it so that we know what's happening:

$Iteration = 0 do { $AllDirectories = (Get-ChildItem -Path $HOME/random -Recurse -Directory).FullName $EmptyDirectories = $AllDirectories | Where-Object {(Get-ChildItem $PSItem).Count -eq 0} $EmptyDirectories | ...