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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting check if file is empty Post 84427 by matrixmadhan on Saturday 24th of September 2005 10:24:28 AM
Old 09-24-2005
this is just another way of doing it

a round about one

Code:
if [ `ls -l <file> | awk '{print $5}'` -eq 0 ]
then
//condition for being empty
else
//condition for not being empty
fi

better way of doing is using the -s option of test
 

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