How do I get a list of all my empty folders on c:\ ?

[Marco Maier]

Here is the shortest solution I have found.
It seems to work.

@echo off
for /r "c:\" /d %%a in (*) do (
dir /b /s /a "%%a" | findstr /r ".*" >nul
if errorlevel 1 echo %%a)

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Marco Maier

[Matthias Tacke]

Marco Maier wrote:

Without going into detail, there one 3 chars shorter:
the "/r " is redundant since reg exp is default with findstr.

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[Marco Maier]

Matthias Tacke wrote in message <news:c88lhb$i3m$05$1...@news.t-online.com> :

>>
> Without going into detail, there one 3 chars shorter:
> the "/r " is redundant since reg exp is default with findstr.

Thanks,and this is even shorter:

@echo off
for /r \ /d %%a in (*) do (
dir /b /s /a "%%a"|findstr .>nul

if errorlevel 1 echo %%a)

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[Marco Maier]

Marco Maier wrote in message <news:v6em6ps8...@MRC.MIR.SID.75> :

But the following is better, because it displays folders with
empty subfolders too:

@echo off
for /r \ /d %%a in (*) do (

2>nul dir /b /s /a-d "%%a"|findstr .>nul