From 4ae427ef45019de59774ea2c941c8684c7de516f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: neingeist <neingeist@bl0rg.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:58:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=90=9B=20rmdir-empty:=20directory=20might?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20have=20been=20removed=20in=20the=20first=20level=20round?=
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---
 rmdir-empty | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rmdir-empty b/rmdir-empty
index 0cc0db2..0f39ca9 100755
--- a/rmdir-empty
+++ b/rmdir-empty
@@ -9,8 +9,17 @@ rmdir_empty() {
 
   # do the first level directories first
   for maxdepth_opt in "-maxdepth 1" ""; do
-    find "$@" -depth -mindepth 1 $maxdepth_opt \
-      -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} \;
+    for d in "$@"; do
+
+      # directory might have been removed in the first level round
+      if [ -z "$max_depth_opt" -a ! -e "$d" ]; then
+        continue
+      fi
+
+      find "$d" -depth $maxdepth_opt \
+        -path "." -prune -or \
+        -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} \;
+    done
   done
 }