Thank you. This is very helpful. Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ari Moisio" <armoi@xxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:59 AM Subject: Re: Deleting all empty files with a single command? > 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:-) > > -- > Mr. Ari Moisio, Niittykatu 5, 41160 Tikkakoski, +358-40-5055239 > ari.moisio at iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/arimo PGP-keyID: 0x3FAF0F05 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >