From ba0030d41833b7d24a80758f84a78a6da1d10d41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: neingeist <neingeist@bl0rg.net>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2023 13:08:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=E2=9C=A8=20rmdir-empty:=20do=20the=20first=20l?=
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---
 rmdir-empty | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rmdir-empty b/rmdir-empty
index 774fff5..0cc0db2 100755
--- a/rmdir-empty
+++ b/rmdir-empty
@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ rmdir_empty() {
     set -- .
   fi
 
-  find "$@" -depth \
-    -path "." -prune -or \
-    -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} \;
+  # do the first level directories first
+  for maxdepth_opt in "-maxdepth 1" ""; do
+    find "$@" -depth -mindepth 1 $maxdepth_opt \
+      -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} \;
+  done
 }
 
 rmdir_empty "$@"