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From: Brian.Oxley@NOVASOFT.COM (B. K. Oxley (binkley) <Brian.Oxley@Novasoft.COM>)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Deleting Empty Files
Date: 31 May 1996 13:29:00 -0400
Organization: Novasoft Systems, Inc.
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In-reply-to: merlyn@stonehenge.com's message of 30 May 1996 03:48:59 -0700
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>>>>> "RLS" == Randal L Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:
In article <ukviheigh0.fsf@julie.teleport.com> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> writes:
Sean> Scott Gregory wrote:
>>> Is there a utility or script that will delete files that are
>>> empty??
Sean> find <options> <dirs> -size 0 -type f | xargs rm -f
Why would you do this in the first place? Why not:
$ find <options> <dirs> -size 0 -type f -exec rm -f \{\} \;
Which doesn't expand or interpret the filenames?
--binkley