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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Find and delete empty files and directories Post 302591010 by methyl on Wednesday 18th of January 2012 08:21:04 AM
Old 01-18-2012
Maybe you need the "-d" switch to "ls" to make "ls" show the directory not its contents. For consistency the "-d" also works with files.
Code:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -empty -exec ls -lad {} \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -empty -exec ls -lad {} \;

Obviously be aware that "rm" on a file changes the "last modified" time on the directory which holds that file.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

secon

SECON(1)								NSA								  SECON(1)

NAME

       secon - See an SELinux context, from a file, program or user input.

SYNOPSIS

       secon [-hVurtscmPRfLp] [CONTEXT]
       [--file] FILE
       [--link] FILE
       [--pid] PID

DESCRIPTION

       See a part of a context. The context is taken from a file, pid, user input or the context in which secon is originally executed.

       -V, --version
	      shows the current version of secon

       -h, --help
	      shows the usage information for secon

       -P, --prompt
	      outputs data in a format suitable for a prompt

       -u, --user
	      show the user of the security context

       -r, --role
	      show the role of the security context

       -t, --type
	      show the type of the security context

       -s, --sensitivity
	      show the sensitivity level of the security context

       -c, --clearance
	      show the clearance level of the security context

       -m, --mls-range
	      show the sensitivity level and clearance, as a range, of the security context

       -R, --raw
	      outputs  the sensitivity level and clearance in an untranslated format.

       -f, --file
	      gets the context from the specified file FILE

       -L, --link
	      gets the context from the specified file FILE (doesn't follow symlinks)

       -p, --pid
	      gets the context from the specified process PID

       --pid-exec
	      gets the exec context from the specified process PID

       --pid-fs
	      gets the fscreate context from the specified process PID

       --current, --self
	      gets the context from the current process

       --current-exec, --self-exec
	      gets the exec context from the current process

       --current-fs, --self-fs
	      gets the fscreate context from the current process

       --parent
	      gets the context from the parent of the current process

       --parent-exec
	      gets the exec context from the parent of the current process

       --parent-fs
	      gets the fscreate context from the parent of the current process

       Additional  argument CONTEXT may be provided and will be used if no options have been specified to make secon get it's context from another
       source.	If that argument is - then the context will be read from stdin.
       If there is no arugment, secon will try reading a context from stdin, if that is not a tty, otherwise secon will act as though  --self  had
       been passed.

       If none of --user, --role, --type, --level or --mls-range is passed.  Then all of them will be output.

SEE ALSO

       chcon (1)

AUTHORS

       James Antill (james.antill@redhat.com)

Security Enhanced Linux 					    April 2006								  SECON(1)
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