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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script to delete empty files from specific locations Post 302990695 by Khan28 on Monday 30th of January 2017 10:26:18 PM
Old 01-30-2017
Shell script to delete empty files from specific locations
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 till end of the text file where path locations are defined.

Any template to meet this requirement will be greatly appreciated.

Contents of the file where multiple specified paths will be mentioned:

Code:
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/INTERFACES
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/FTP_XXSRDLS/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/SORT_XXMRLP/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/SORT_XXMRDP/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/FTP_XXMRUP/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/FTP_XXMRLP/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/FTP_XXSRDL/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/FTP_XXSRUPV/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/SORT_XXMRDPQ/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/SORT_XXMRDPQ/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/SORT_XXMRLPQ/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/SORT_XXMRLPQ/stderr
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/XXMRDPNT/reports
/b02/apps/appsoutput/UAT/SORT_XXMRDPS/stderr

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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE

shar

SHAR(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   SHAR(1)

NAME

     shar -- create a shell archive of files

SYNOPSIS

     shar file ...

DESCRIPTION

     shar writes an sh(1) shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file hierarchy specified by the command line operands.
     Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the files they contain (the find(1) utility does this correctly).

     shar is normally used for distributing files by ftp(1) or mail(1).

SEE ALSO

     compress(1), mail(1), tar(1), uuencode(1)

BUGS

     shar makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing magic characters.

EXAMPLES

     To create a shell archive of the program ls(1) and mail it to Rick:

	   cd ls
	   shar `find . -print` |  mail -s "ls source" rick

     To recreate the program directory:

	   mkdir ls
	   cd ls
	   ...
	   <delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
	   ...
	   sh archive

HISTORY

     The shar command appears in 4.4BSD.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

     It is easy to insert trojan horses into shar files.  It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined before running them
     through sh(1).  Archives produced using this implementation of shar may be easily examined with the command:

	   egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file

4.4BSD								   June 6, 1993 							    4.4BSD
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