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That command doesn't work for me. It's pretty much just copying OLD_FILE to NEW_FILE. But it turned out I needed the last two lines because the last line of the file is blank.
I found this sed...

I ran that command
sed '$d' OLD_FILE > NEW_FILE and it just displays the OLD_FILE contents.
In other words I want to display everything up to the last line of the OLD_FILE but I don't know how many...

Do you have to make an output file?

Hi, I searched the forums but could not find anything that was very useful. I am trying to remove the very last line from a file and display the rest of the file.
Is there a way to use cut and tail...

Although the 'rm -i' command from vidyadhar85 does work. I want it to display the directory contents one-by-one than ask me to delete.
I changed the 'FILESIZE=' to the new one posted by shamrock but...

When i replace
filesize=`ls -l | awk '$5=0'`
with
FILESIZE="ls -l | awk $5 == 0"
I get an error this time. line 28: [: too many arguments
line 28 is the if [ $FILESIZE ]

I am having problems with finding the filesize with this in my script:

filesize=`ls -l | awk '$5=0'`

if [ -d $1 ]; then
ls -l | awk '{print $9 " " $5}'
if [ $filesize ]; then
...

Hi,
I am trying to write a script that will use ls on a directory and list the files one at a time and their size. If the size is 0 i want it to ask me if I want to delete it (yes or no). If I say...