Or do you mean all files in a tree with 0 bytes? And then there is the question of whether hidden files (.something) should be included in the search. The unix way is the tersest (this example includes hidden files)
find /whatever/path/ -size 0 -exec rm {} \;
And the perl way, with hidden files filtered out this time:
Purge( '/whatever/path' ); sub Purge { my $dir = shift; open my $dh or die "$!, for $dir"; for my $file ( grep !/^\./, readdir $dh ) { my $path = "$dir/$file"; if ( -d $path ) { Purge( $path ); } else { ( -z $path ) and unlink $path; } } close $dh or die "$!, for $dir"; }

-M

Free your mind


In reply to Re: UNIX command - remove 0 byte file by Moron
in thread UNIX command - remove 0 byte file by darrengan

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