Delete files with 0kb

mephisto · #1 (**permalink**) 10-23-2006

Hi, i need to strip out a logfile dir, but only remove the files with 0kb . How would i go about doing this?

TIA

napolayan · #2 (**permalink**) 10-23-2006

ls -l|while read line
do
awk '$5 != 0 {print $0}'
done>file1

$5 is the fifth field in output of ls - l which gives the no. of characters in the file. so i hv written all the files which dont hv zero characters (or bytes) to file1

jim mcnamara · #3 (**permalink**) 10-23-2006

Code:

find /path/to/logs -type f  -size 0 -exec rm -f {} \;

mephisto · #4 (**permalink**) 10-23-2006

thanks v much for your help i used

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

which indeed worked perfectly.

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