Fast parallel removal of empty directories using find and xargs

The following command will recursively find and remove empty directories in the current directory tree. It uses xargs to do it in parallel

remove_empty_dirs.sh

find . -depth -type d  -print0 | xargs -0 -n32 -P32 rmdir -v

find . -depth -type d  -print0 | xargs -0 -n32 -P32 rmdir -v

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