I'm trying to figure out a way to delete empty files in a directory. I have a cron that runs and creates a flat file every 15 mins. However, most times at night the flat file will be empty.
I'd like to run a script to delete empty files that end with *.dat
Any suggestions?
Rich (1 Reply)
Hi I need to write a shell script which basically searches for all the empty files within the directory structure, lists them before asking the user to confirm if they would like to delete them. If the user deletes the file then a notice would appear confirming the file is deleted.
I've be... (5 Replies)
I have av script that loops through some statistic files to create a report. We would like to only loop through non-empty files as these files create an empty report-line.
I have figured out how to find the non-empty files, but not how to loop through only those files.
Here is the code that finds... (4 Replies)
I have a local linux machine in which the files are dumped by a remote ubuntu server. If the process in remote server has any problem then empty files are created in local machine. Is there any way using perl script to check if the empty files are being created and delete them and then run a shell... (2 Replies)
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Need to make a script, to remove all empty files and folders from current category.
It also should show the name... (2 Replies)
My code to "Delete empty files from a directory entered in command promt"
#/bin/sh
echo "Enter directory"
read gh
for file in `ls $gh`
do
# to get the size of file
a=$( ls -l file | awk ' {print $7} ');
echo $a
if
then
echo "removing file "
rm file
fi
done (6 Replies)
We are regularly using for our testing, where we are manually filling up the mount with desired size with following command
dd if=/dev/zero of=file_2GB bs=2048000 count=2000
We are planning to automate the task where taking input for % of size as one input and the name of the file system... (8 Replies)
Hi
My directory structure is as below.
dir1, dir2, dir3
I have the list of files to be deleted in the below path as below.
/staging/retain_for_2years/Cleanup/log $ ls -lrt
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 256 Mar 01 16:15 01-MAR-2015_SPDBS2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root ... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need help in regard to developing a shell script to delete empty files from multiple specific locations. The directory paths will be stored in a text file. So the requirement is to read the text file for one specific path and then remove empty files from that particular path. Looping through... (4 Replies)