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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone, I am new to shell scripting.Please help.
I have list of files under some path /opt/thomas/
FileNames : 1.txt,2.txt,3.txt
I would like to check if these three files exists and not empty,continue with the script or else write error message file not found or file empty
Thanks (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: thomas9192
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Everyone,
# ll
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-05-13 11:29 a1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-05-13 11:29 a2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-05-13 11:29 a3.log
# rm a.log
above rm no problem, but when i use "> a.log", it says "-bash: a.log: ambiguous redirect".
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3. Homework & Coursework Questions
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Can you tell me how to empty all files in a directory with a "find" command?
It does not seem to work the way I try it:
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
How can I check if a file is empty?
I have read that I could done in this way:
if
then
echo "non-zero length file"
fi
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Gurus,
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Is there any way, we can find files not empty? I know one can find empty files by using find with -size is equalled to 0.
Please let me know, how I can find files greater than 0 or any other size in number? (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
as of our requiremnt some x no of files will be created from a third party tool ,out of them one or two files will be empty i.e size is 0. so i want to remove those files which are empty.
naming of the files which are created will be like this
abc_.txt 0 size
abc_1.txt 4000 size
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Hi,
I would like to write a shell script that moves files from one folder to another without retrieving the error 'can not find file or folder' when the folder is empty.
Any ideas,
Thx in advance,
Steven. (8 Replies)
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