Subject: RE: 0 byte files removing
From: Peter Q. Olsson (olsson@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 15:37:33 AKST
jon-
Though you have heard lots of different ways to solve this problem by now, it
would be negligent of us not to give a perl solution as well:
perl -e 'for(@ARGV){ -z and unlink }' *
removes all zero size (-z is true) files in the current directory. Perl, the
duct tape of the computer world...
pqo
jonr@destar.net <jonr@destar.net> [030108 11:29]:
>
> Is there a simple way to remove a directory full of 0 byte
> files? I have a directory that has some files I would like
> to keep that have file sizes but there are others that have
> no size in the same directory and I would like to remove them
> all at the same time rather than doing it one at a time.
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