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How do I recursively delete all directories which do not contain any files and make an exclusion of hidden directories?

A lot of the directories that I wish to delete contain hidden directories (dot directories) with files inside them, I do not want these directories.

However, any directories with actually visible files in them - I wish to keep.

Any suggestions?

Example (I wish to delete)

v@localhost:~/test$ ls -al
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 3 v v 4096 Oct 28 04:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 255 v v 12288 Oct 28 04:38 ..
drwxrwxr-x 4 v v 4096 Oct 28 04:31 .hidden

Example (I wish to keep)

v@localhost:~/google.com$ ls -al
total 348
drwxrwxr-x 6 v v 4096 Oct 28 04:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 255 v v 12288 Oct 28 04:38 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 54 Oct 28 04:39 BCF9360BE20A13B7DA407BF12AF28650.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 254 Oct 28 04:39 crossdomain.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 1150 Oct 28 04:39 favicon.ico
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 234 Oct 28 04:39 .htaccess
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 23 Oct 28 04:39 index.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 418 Oct 28 04:39 index.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 19935 Oct 28 04:39 license.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 110249 Oct 28 04:39 php_errors.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 7344 Oct 28 04:39 readme.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 5456 Oct 28 04:39 wp-activate.php
drwxrwxr-x 9 v v 4096 Oct 28 04:39 wp-admin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 364 Oct 28 04:39 wp-blog-header.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 1477 Oct 28 04:39 wp-comments-post.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 3376 Oct 28 04:39 wp-config-local.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 5219 Oct 28 04:39 wp-config.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 2853 Oct 28 04:39 wp-config-sample.php
drwxrwxr-x 7 v v 4096 Oct 28 04:39 wp-content
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 3286 Oct 28 04:39 wp-cron.php
drwxrwxr-x 17 v v 12288 Oct 28 04:39 wp-includes
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 2382 Oct 28 04:39 wp-links-opml.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 3353 Oct 28 04:39 wp-load.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 34057 Oct 28 04:39 wp-login.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 7993 Oct 28 04:39 wp-mail.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 13920 Oct 28 04:39 wp-settings.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 29890 Oct 28 04:39 wp-signup.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 4035 Oct 28 04:39 wp-trackback.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 v v 3064 Oct 28 04:39 xmlrpc.php