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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting the empty file Post 302072500 by Manish Jha on Wednesday 3rd of May 2006 02:03:40 PM
Old 05-03-2006
follow these steps

1> check for spaces using sed remove all the spaces
2> use an if condition to check the size of the file like
if [[ ! -s txt ]] then
echo " empty "
else
echo "non empty"

fi
3) now delete in if statement
rm -f txt.

-Manish Jha
 

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asadmin-delete-profiler(1AS)					   User Commands				      asadmin-delete-profiler(1AS)

NAME
asadmin-delete-profiler, delete-profiler - deletes the profiler element SYNOPSIS
delete-profiler --user admin_user [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s] [--passwordfile filename] [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true] Deletes the profiler element. A server instance is tied to a particular profiler by the profiler element in the Java configuration. Chang- ing a profiler requires you to restart the server. This command is supported in remote mode only. OPTIONS
--user authorized domain application server administrative username. --password password to administer the domain application server. --host machine name where the domain application server is running. --port port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests. --secure if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server. --passwordfile file containing the domain application server password. --terse indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well- formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false. --echo setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false. --interactive if set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted. Example 1: Using delete-profiler asadmin> delete-profiler --user admin --passwordfile passwords.txt --host localhost --port 4848 Deleted Profiler Where: profiler is the deleted profile element. EXIT STATUS
0 command executed successfully 1 error in executing the command asadmin-create-profiler(1AS), asadmin-list-profiler(1AS) J2EE 1.4 SDK March 2004 asadmin-delete-profiler(1AS)
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