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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search directories for files with zero sizes to delete Post 302224246 by akeenabawa on Tuesday 12th of August 2008 02:51:41 PM
Old 08-12-2008
Question Search directories for files with zero sizes to delete
Hi,
I am trying to write a script that will use ls on a directory and list the files one at a time and their size. If the size is 0 i want it to ask me if I want to delete it (yes or no). If I say yes, I want it to delete but it won't know what the file name is just from running from the script. First I just cannot get it to display the name before the size.
This is what I have:
Code:
dirname=$1

clear

if [ $# -ge 2 ]; then
  echo "Too many parameters. Usage: file-info [directory]"
  exit
elif [ $# -eq 0 ];then set `pwd`;
fi

if [ -d $1 ]; then
    cd $1
    echo "Processing `pwd`... "
  ls -1 -s
  if [ -filesize=0- ]; then
  echo "Would you like to delete this file? (y/n)"
  read ANSWER
      if [ $ANSWER = "y" ]; then
              rm -filename-
      elif [ $ANSWER = "n" ]; then
      echo "...proceed..."
       fi
    fi
cd   

else
    echo "$1 is not a valid directory... terminating..."
fi

Can someone please give me a hand with this? Thank you.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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