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From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Deleting Empty Files
Date: 29 May 1996 11:52:53 GMT
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To: sgregory@pubspo.hq.af.mil (Scott Gregory)
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In article <31ab29fe.17230986@news.hq.af.mil>,
	sgregory@pubspo.hq.af.mil (Scott Gregory) writes:
>Is there a utility or script that will delete files that are empty??
>
>I have a script that creates an empty file if it doesn't get any
>input.  I am pipeing ls to another script, but I don't want empty
>files included.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.

man test

 -s file       True if file exists and has a size greater than zero.

So you can write a shellscript using this test operator.

	Andreas ///

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