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Old 09-14-2016
Move zero byte files
Hi,

I have a requirement to move zero byte files to an archive folder. I have the below script and it works fine if I run it from where the file is present. But when I run the script from different folder, I am getting error that file is not present. Please help.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

INBOUND_PATH=/home/prasanna
ARCHIVAL_PATH=/home/prasanna/archive

ls -l $INBOUND_PATH | awk -F " " '{if ($5 == 0) print $9}' | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' $ARCHIVAL_PATH

The problem is I am printing $9 from awk which gives me the filename alone. If I could get file path prefixing file name, it should resolve my issue
# 2  
Old 09-14-2016
Why don't you prepend the source file in the mv command with the $INBOUND_PATH?
# 3  
Old 09-14-2016
Code:
find $INBOUND_PATH -size 0 -print | xargs

or use -s : file is not zero size

using awk with $5 is not the safe way
Last edited by chakrapani; 09-14-2016 at 12:08 PM.. Reason: extra pipe
# 4  
Old 09-16-2016
RudiC,

I am now sure how to prepend source file. Please help on that.

Chakrapani,

I didnt went for find since the archival path is in a subfolder and it will picks up those files as well.
Code:
-maxdepth

is not supported in my version.
# 5  
Old 09-16-2016
This should overcome the missing -maxdepth find option:

Code:
find "$INBOUND_PATH"  -type d ! -name . -prune -o -type f -size 0 \
    -exec sh -c 'for i do echo mv "$i" "'$ARCHIVAL_PATH'"; done' sh {} +

Remove "echo" to enable the move.
# 6  
Old 09-16-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
This should overcome the missing -maxdepth find option:

Code:
find "$INBOUND_PATH"  -type d ! -name . -prune -o -type f -size 0 \
    -exec sh -c 'for i do echo mv "$i" "'$ARCHIVAL_PATH'"; done' sh {} +

Remove "echo" to enable the move.
There is a bug: -name . only matches if the start directory is .
Code:
cd "$INBOUND_PATH" && find . -type d ! -name . -prune -o -type f -size 0 \
    -exec sh -c 'for i do echo mv "$i" "'"$ARCHIVAL_PATH"'"; done' sh {} +

A bit shorter is
Code:
cd "$INBOUND_PATH" && find . ! -name . -prune -type f -size 0 \
     -exec sh -c 'for i do echo mv "$i" "'"$ARCHIVAL_PATH"'"; done' sh {} +

I put another "quote" around the $ARCHIVE_PATH that avoids expansion+globbing in the current shell.
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 09-16-2016 at 02:16 PM..
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# 7  
Old 09-16-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
There is a bug: -name . only matches if the start directory is .
...
I put another "quote" around the $ARCHIVE_PATH that avoids expansion+globbing in the current shell.
Thanks for the corrections MiG! I should have test the script I posted ;-)
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