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Old 03-19-2009
Shell - How to iterate through all the files in a directory?
Hi,

I have a directory call Test, which contains files "a", b", "c", etc. I want to go through all of the files inside Test and remove any empty file. How would I do that with shell csh?

So far I got...

Code:
#!/bin/csh

if (($#argv == 0) || ($#argv > 1)) then
   echo "no argument or too many"
   exit 1
else 
   if (-d $argv[1]) then              # the argument is a directory
      ..........

# 2  
Old 03-19-2009
use the find command. check your man page.
# 3  
Old 03-19-2009
Nvm. I figured it out. I needed to put all the files into an array and do a while loop.
Last edited by teiji; 03-20-2009 at 01:01 AM..
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