01-19-2018
I'm not really sure of the point you're trying to make. An empty file is a zero length file. A file that isn't zero-length, whether it contains only spaces or not, is not an empty file. If you want to remove files that you consider to be "empty", then you'll need to check those those files.
I appreciate that English may not be your first language, but some punctuation would make it simpler to parse your statements.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: berlin_germany
5 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: cat123
5 Replies
3. Cybersecurity
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)
Discussion started by: schallstrom
6 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: majormark
9 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: sirrtuan
7 Replies
6. Solaris
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)
Discussion started by: JVerstry
2 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: Ginkosu
3 Replies
8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I know i can run cksum <filename> . However, how i can run cksum on all the files and directories in the $HOME ?? (SUNOS) (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: moe458
4 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Can anyone please write a shell script to remove the empty files using an if condition.
please help me out , urgent
thanks (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: muthi_murali
6 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script, which is supposed to run 1 day of the month, connect to remote server certain directory, find files, tar the, and copy
find . -ctime -1 | tar -cvf transfer_dmz_start_monthly.tar *${Today}*.*;
if
then
echo "Cannot create a tar file, the terminated... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: digioleg54
2 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
tv_extractinfo_en
TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1p)
NAME
tv_extractinfo_en - read English-language listings and extract info from programme descriptions.
SYNOPSIS
tv_extractinfo_en [--help] [--output FILE] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
Read XMLTV data and attempt to extract information from English-language programme descriptions, putting it into machine-readable form.
For example the human-readable text '(repeat)' in a programme description might be replaced by the XML element <previously-shown>.
--output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output
This tool also attempts to split multipart programmes into their constituents, by looking for a description that seems to contain lots of
times and titles. But this depends on the description following one particular style and is useful only for some listings sources
(Ananova).
If some text is marked with the 'lang' attribute as being some language other than English ('en'), it is ignored.
SEE ALSO
xmltv(5).
AUTHOR
Ed Avis, ed@membled.com
BUGS
Trying to parse human-readable text is always error-prone, more so with the simple regexp-based approach used here. But because TV listing
descriptions usually conform to one of a few set styles, tv_extractinfo_en does reasonably well. It is fairly conservative, trying to
avoid false positives (extracting 'information' which isn't really there) even though this means some false negatives (failing to extract
information and leaving it in the human-readable text).
However, the leftover bits of text after extracting information may not form a meaningful English sentence, or the punctuation may be
wrong.
On the two listings sources currently supported by the XMLTV package, this program does a reasonably good job. But it has not been tested
with every source of anglophone TV listings.
perl v5.14.2 2011-05-07 TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1p)