Find files size 0 within a directory

astonmartin · #1 (**permalink**) 02-07-2008

Ok, I'm very new to shell scripting and need some help. Given a directory path, I need to find all files within the directory of length/size zero and print the full pathname for each file to a text file. From what I've looked at so far I figured what I have would work but I don't even get an error, it just doesn't give anything for output. Right now I'm just trying to print to the screen so I know if it works right away. Here's what I got:

find $dirpath -type f -size 0 -exec ls {} \;

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 02-07-2008

Code:

cd $dirpath
find $dirpath -size -1 -exec ls -l {} \;

Smiling Dragon · #3 (**permalink**) 02-07-2008

Just leave off the exec part:

Code:

find /dir/path -type f -size 0

astonmartin · #4 (**permalink**) 02-07-2008

hey thx guys. its alwasy the little things u over look

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