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From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Deleting Empty Files
Date: 31 May 1996 14:17:14 -0700
Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA
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In-reply-to: Brian.Oxley@NOVASOFT.COM's message of 31 May 1996 13:29:00 -0400
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>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Oxley@NOVASOFT COM (B K Oxley (binkley) <<Brian.Oxley@Novasoft.COM>)> writes:
Brian> Why would you do this in the first place? Why not:
Brian> $ find <options> <dirs> -size 0 -type f -exec rm -f \{\} \;
Brian> Which doesn't expand or interpret the filenames?
Why would you want to launch a separate rm process for every file to
be blown away?
See my perl solution (already posted) for the one-process way.
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