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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how to find empty folders without using -empty Post 302158629 by lasse on Wednesday 16th of January 2008 01:26:33 AM
Old 01-16-2008
Code:
mkdir aa1 aa2
du -ks * |sort -n

the result is
1 aa1
1 aa2

and i TOUCH a new file in aa1, run again, the result still:
1 aa1
1 aa2

-size 0 can not work for empty folder
 

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