How to find empty folders in linux in terminal?

Question

linux

How to find empty folders in linux terminal and delete them without deleting the child folder?
find /shared/trash/temp/ -empty -type d
Gives the result:
/shared/trash/temp/ - i.e. also a candidate for deletion. folder is empty.

How to avoid deleting the parent folder when it is empty? This task will hang in crontab and delete empty folders and old files in the temp folder

find /shared/trash/temp/ -empty -type d deletes the parent folder too, it doesn't help! And the links are also just the same solution :(

Answer 1

find ./* -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \; 2> /dev/null

Try

Answer 2

How to avoid deleting the parent folder when it is empty?

find /shared/trash/temp/ -mindepth 1 -empty -type d