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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory shell script to find zero byte files Post 302088840 by ramky79 on Thursday 14th of September 2006 05:56:52 PM
Old 09-14-2006
shell script to find zero byte files
I have a directory MYDIR
In which i have several directories 1,2,3,4....
Now, In each of these directories i have several files a.dat, b.dat, c.dat, d.dat.....

MYDIR
----1
---------a.dat
---------b.dat
---------c.dat
---------d.dat
----2
---------a.dat
---------b.dat
---------c.dat
---------d.dat
----3
---------a.dat
---------b.dat
---------c.dat
---------d.dat
.
.
.
.
.
Task: to find the zero byte .dat files and move them to a different directory


how do i do this!!!


my pseudo approach:


#!/bin/sh

source= "/root/MYDIR/"
dest= "/root/MYDIR/log"

foreach i($source)
do
find *.DAT -size 0c -exec mv '{}' ${dest} \;
done


appreciate any ideas
 

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NAME

       arp2ethers - convert arpwatch address database to ethers file format

SYNOPSIS

       arp2ethers

DESCRIPTION

       arp2ethers converts file arp.dat in the current directory into ethers(5) format on stdout.  Usually arp.dat is an ethernet/ip database file
       generated by arpwatch(8).  The arpwatch daemon in Debian will create different arp.dat depending on its configuration. All of them will	be
       available at /var/lib/arpwatch/.

FILES

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SEE ALSO

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BUGS

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AUTHORS

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