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Old 10-23-2007
finding empty files that are padded with zeros
how can search for files that are non-zero length but are empty?
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Old 11-08-2007
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Originally Posted by polive96
how can search for files that are non-zero length but are empty?
That's not really something that can happen. A non-zero file is, by definition, not empty.

To find a file that contains nothing but '0' characters. I'd try something like this
Code:
for file in <filenames>; do if egrep -v -e '^0*$' $file > /dev/null; then echo "do nothing" > /dev/null else echo "{}"; fi ; done

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