Hey, good comment. I had no idea the find command was so powerful
myself. In the past, I have used the find command to create a list
and pipe that into a script but this sounds more concise.
See, we learn something every day:).
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:59:58AM +0300, Ari Moisio wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Octavian Rasnita 03.06.02:
>
> >I want to delete all empty files from a directory with a single command.
> >What switch should I use to "select" all the empty files?
>
> In command line you can write:
> find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size 0 -exec rm {} \;
>
> ...well: find is a command to find files for certain criteria. First
> dot means start from current directory, -maxdepth 1 means not recursing
> into subdirectories, -type f means only ordinary files, -size 0 is quite
> obvious and -exec will launch rm to erase file if all previous
> conditions are met. {} in exec is replaced by file name and \; means end
> of -exec command.
>
> To see more options see find man page:-)
>
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