Hello All!

I am confused. I found a possible solution to finding / deleting zero byte files. Here is the excerpt from the post I would like to discuss is:

If you need to do it from a Perl program, I would do: 

# Remove all empty files in '$dir' and below. </p>

my $dir = "/some/path";
system "find '$dir' -size 0c | xargs rm";

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To write a perl script to make this work, it would look like: 

!#/bin/perl
# To remove all 0 byte file in a folder

my $dir = "/home/bob/mytemp";
system "find '$dir' -size 0c | xargs rm";

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This does not work. I can type this from command line: 

find . -type f -size 0 | xargs rm

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and it deletes all zero byte file.

I can type from cmd line:

find /home/bob/mytemp -type f -size 0 -exec rm {} \;

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and it removes all 0 byte file.

BUT,,, when I put it in a perl script, it errors or just does not work.

Can anyone explain why?

Thanks so much

In reply to Error in script by Detox

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