CakePHP “empty” Files in Each Directory
If you use CakePHP you have probably noticed that each empty directory contains a file named “empty” which is, unsurprisingly, empty. The purpose of this file is to allow the CakePHP project to be managed via Git, which tracks only files and not directories. In order to add a directory to a project, it must contain a file.
Usually this isn’t a problem, you can just ignore these files, but if you want to revision control your source code (which is always a good idea), you probably don’t want to include these empty files. Here is a quick and easy way to get rid of them before your initial import:
1 2 | $ cd /path/to/your/working/directory $ find . -type f -name 'empty' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rdf |
You should now be a few dozen empty files lighter.
This saves the day and a lot of headache thanks