Thanks itkamaraj for your help. It is working fine from command prompt but when I write it in the script I am getting
rmchk.sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected Script
I know this must be really easy, but i can't get it to work
I've got a perl script, with a file.
I want to print an empty line, and the following doesn't seem to work:
print nameoffile "\n"
thanks for your help!! (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to delete the lines with empty name.
What is the best way to do it?
Thanks a lot for your help!
EMID MMDDYY HOURS JOB EMNAME
0241 051605 11.40 52062 someone
0520 051605 10.63 52062
0520 051605 10.66 52062
0520 051605 10.65 52062 (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have an dir which has 50K file, some of them are empty. I want to delete the empty file from the dir. I am planning to use the following command.
ls -l | grep " 0 " | awk '{print $9}'
I can copy this to an file and then how do I use this file to delete the empty files.... Any help... (2 Replies)
abc#
abc#this is a test
abc#this is a test to delete
abc#
xyz#
xyz#this is a test two
xyz#
In the above example '#' is common. How to do delete the emply lines. In specific to observe the output as:
abc#this is a test
abc#this is a test to delete
xyz#this is a test two
.
.
.
. (5 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I want to print the lines whose third field in non-empty/blank space.
i.e.
INPUT FILE/B]
dcdccghjrry0yd cont
dcdccttrk820529 cont rdekedfsSCr
dcdccttrdky2d0y cont rdekedfsSC2 ... (3 Replies)
hi,
I'd like to ask you if you can help me with such surely easy thing - I have some data and need to plot them. I have txt of data in two columns, tab separated, but some second columns are empty. like
1```` 2
1.2``
3```` 2
4.44`
5`````
6.1```1
how can I erase all the lines... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to write a shell script to files of zero length in a specified directory, but I keep getting errors. Would anybody be kind enough to look it over for issues? Thanks a bunch in advance.
#!/bin/sh
if
then
if
then
find $1 -type f -size 0 -print|xargs rm
exit 0... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to delete all empty directories in a long directore tree structure. I want to use that from a script that will run on HP-UX 11. My definition of empty directory is that there is no regular file under it and directly beneath it. To elaborate, I have below directories.
/app/dev/java... (14 Replies)
I have an amount of folders and I want to delete only the empty ones. But I have more than 200 empty folders, so I would preffer do not delete one by one... I know it is possible, but I don't know how. I've tried with the size, using 'du' command, and saving the result in a file. After that, I made... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to remove everything coming after empty line under ubuntu14.04.
How may I do it?
file:
aaa
020390
bb00id3
c03wisi
209dl
x092sia
0290s
I expect:
aaa
020390
bb00id3
c03wisi (3 Replies)