We can find zero size file using below comand if we want search 0 size and along with empty file
(File not contain any data may be space which is greater then 0 size ) want to remove
those file in my home directory
Hello Gurus,
I want to delete only empty files (files with 0 bytes) at once from the local directory. Rightnow I need to go through all the files one by one manually and check the empty files before deleting them. Is there any unix command that finds and deletes empty files in a directory?... (5 Replies)
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)
Hi everyone,
really strange files keep appearing in my home directory. I have absolutely no idea where they come from and I'm a little concerned that they could come from some kind of malware activity or Firefox exploit. I searched Google for parts of the file names but without a result. The... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
Can you tell me how to empty all files in a directory with a "find" command?
It does not seem to work the way I try it:
# ls -l *.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Jul 20 20:51 la2.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Jul 20 20:51 la.dat
# find... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I need to delete an empty directory in a temp directory except "dir5" (keep everything that is not empty).
Plese advise.
Here is an example of my directory.
/dir/temp/
dir1 - delete if this is empty
dir2 - delete if this is empty
dir3 - delete if this is empty
dir4 - delete if this... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am newbie to Solaris and system administration in general, and I have a couple of questions about files in my HOME directory.
When I perform ls -la, I get the following list of files:
drwxr-xr-x 7 XXXYYY staff 17 Aug 24 07:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 7... (2 Replies)
hey there folks! I cant figure out, for the life of me, how to procede in removing alll the files in my home directory that are not owned by me.
would i have to list them, but after that what do i do. or is there some way I am not aware of.
my employer heard i could script in unix, but i havent... (3 Replies)
I have a script, which is supposed to run 1 day of the month, connect to remote server certain directory, find files, tar the, and copy
find . -ctime -1 | tar -cvf transfer_dmz_start_monthly.tar *${Today}*.*;
if
then
echo "Cannot create a tar file, the terminated... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: digioleg54
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
rmdir
RMDIR(1) FSF RMDIR(1)NAME
rmdir - remove empty directories
SYNOPSIS
rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
DESCRIPTION
Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.
--ignore-fail-on-non-empty
ignore each failure that is solely because a directory is non-empty
-p, --parents
remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each directory component of that path name. E.g., `rmdir -p a/b/c' is similar to `rmdir a/b/c
a/b a'.
-v, --verbose
output a diagnostic for every directory processed
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for rmdir is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and rmdir programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info rmdir
should give you access to the complete manual.
rmdir (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 RMDIR(1)