I found a script online that works when entered into custom cronjobs on cpanel.
When i run this script, the code deletes the folder and everything within it.
rm -rf public_html/storage_area/images/
I would like to delete empty sub-folders housed within the images folder and not the actual images folder itself.
I do not have much technical knowledge so any help would be much appreciated. I have tried a few php scripts that i found online but did not have much luck so if there is something that exists even better.
Thank you for any assistance.
You just need to modify the command a bit.
If you need to remove only files inside that folder you can use,
rm -rf public_html/storage_area/images/*.*
The *.* will only remove files within the folder public_html/storage_area/images/ having an extension.
If you need to remove files and sub folders, then you need to use
rm -rf public_html/storage_area/images/*
If you only need to remove sub folders which are empty, you can use
find -type d -empty -delete
Before running the above command, you may need to verify whether the command is only returning empty folders. For that you can use,
find public_html/storage_area/images/ -type d -empty -print