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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!news.boulder.noaa.gov!news From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Re: Deleting Empty Files Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 18:25:40 -0600 Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory Lines: 13 Message-ID: <31ACEB04.136A@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <31ab29fe.17230986@news.hq.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: emu.fsl.noaa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.01 9000/715) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20321 comp.lang.perl.misc:26661 Scott Gregory wrote: > Is there a utility or script that will delete files that are empty?? find <options> <dirs> -size 0 -type f | xargs rm -f See `man find' for more details on the <options> you may or may not need. <dirs> is one or more directories in which to do the deed. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/