How to recursively remove all empty folders in PowerShell?

Question

I need to recursively remove all empty folders for a specific folder in PowerShell (checking folder and sub-folder at any level).

At the moment I am using this scrip

Answer 1

I wouldn't take the comments/1st post to heart unless you also want to delete files that are nested more than one folder deep. You are going to end up deleting directories that may contain directories that may contain files. This is better:

$FP= "C:\Temp\"

$dirs= Get-Childitem -LiteralPath $FP -directory -recurse

$Empty= $dirs | Where-Object {$_.GetFiles().Count -eq 0 **-and** $_.GetDirectories().Count -eq 0} | 

Select-Object FullName

The above checks to make sure the directory is in fact empty whereas the OP only checks to make sure there are no files. That in turn would result in files nexted a few folders deep also being deleted.

You may need to run the above a few times as it won't delete Dirs that have nested Dirs. So it only deletes the deepest level. So loop it until they're all gone.

Something else I do not do is use the -force parameter. That is by design. If in fact remove-item hits a dir that is not empty you want to be prompted as an additional safety.