Requirements are to take a list of root dirs on the command line, delete any empty dirs {...} and the code need not worry about circular directories due to symlinks or the like.

It's often seen as bad form to invoke a lot of system commands which are likely to fail, but it seems to me that with these requirements, I could just rmdir() everything in sight, and if it failed to rmdir, then it was clearly not a leaf directory. 

@_=@ARGV;
push@_,glob("$_/*")for@_;
@_=grep{-d}reverse@_;
$t=@_;rmdir$_&&$d++for@_;
print"D:$d F:",$t-$d,$/;

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Update: added the requisite reporting, though still not trying very hard to reduce my handicap.

I did notice that glob("$_/*") appeared to break on directory names with spaces in them, at least here at work across a Samba-supplied directory. I haven't looked into that further.

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In reply to Re: (golf) Recursively delete empty directories from a tree by halley
in thread (golf) Recursively delete empty directories from a tree by demerphq

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