Delete an empty file from dir. - Shell Programming and Scripting

Script40 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-02-2008

Hi,

I have an dir which has 50K file, some of them are empty. I want to delete the empty file from the dir. I am planning to use the following command.

ls -l | grep " 0 " | awk '{print $9}'

I can copy this to an file and then how do I use this file to delete the empty files.... Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Franklin52 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-02-2008

You can do something like this with find:

Code:

find . -size 0 -exec rm -f {} \;

To be shure you get the correct files you can ls those files first with:

Code:

find . -size 0 -exec ls -l {} \;

Regards

Script40 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-02-2008

Thanks it worked.

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