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# 1  
Old 11-20-2011
Shell script to remove empty files
Hi All,

Can anyone please write a shell script to remove the empty files using an if condition.

please help me out , urgent

thanks
# 2  
Old 11-21-2011
Code:
find . -type f -size 0 -exec rm {} \;

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# 3  
Old 11-21-2011
thank you so much !!!!!!
# 4  
Old 11-21-2011
Put the below script in the directory in which you want to remove empty files (i.e. files with size zero)

Code:
#! /bin/bash
for x in *
do
    if [ -s $x ]
    then
        continue
    else
        rm -rf $x
    fi
done

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# 5  
Old 11-21-2011
Thanks a lot !!!!!!
# 6  
Old 11-21-2011
Code:
 find ~ -empty

or
Code:
for i in *
do
if [ -s $i ]; then
echo "$i is a file and size is greater than zero."
else
echo "$i is an empty file and deleting now..."
rm -rf $i
fi
done

# 7  
Old 11-21-2011
Code:
 
for i in *; do [ ! -s $i ] && rm -rf $i; done

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