printing and deleting using awk - Shell Programming and Scripting

vivek.gkp · #1 10-10-2008

I am trying to print and delete at the same time 0KB files... using following command

a-> find . -type f | xargs ls -l | awk '{ if($5 == 0) {print $0;}}' | xargs rm $0

but am not successful. Can somebody tell me how to do this ... same time I need files to be printed as well deleted later.

I used tee command as well like this

b-> ListFilesZKB | tee | xargs rm $0

where ListFilesZKB is shell script for (a) excluding last pipe.

zaxxon · #2 10-10-2008

Tadaaaa:

Code:

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

vivek.gkp · #3 10-10-2008

Hi I tried the same u specified it didnt work all zero KB files still present.
But this wont give any error message, just gets completed.

jim mcnamara · #4 10-10-2008

Something is not right, zaxxon's example is correct, based on what you asked.

What output does this produce?

Code:

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

Does it find zero-length files or not? If not try changing -size 0 to -size -1

vivek.gkp · #5 10-10-2008

thx it worked ... but I wanted listing of files in long format.

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