How to find size 0-4 bytes files?


 
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Old 08-12-2009
How to find size 0-4 bytes files?

Hi

I need to find and delete 0-4 bytes size files in a folder.
How can I achieve that?
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Old 08-12-2009
Code:
find /folder -type f -size -5c -exec rm {} \;

Careful, it is recursive. If you have subdirectories that shouldn't be affected below /folder use -prune in addition.
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