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how-to delete 0 bytes files

ls -lahS | awk ‘{if( $5==0 ) print $8}’ | xargs rm

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 10:42 PM and filed under Linux.
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Comments (2) to “how-to delete 0 bytes files”

Alejandro Segovia wrote:

Hey, what about:

find . -size 0 | xargs rm

Cheers!

Posted on 17-Oct-07 at 4:40 pm | Permalink
gus wrote:

If you want to do the same with find you should add a maxdepth, something like this,

find ./* -maxdepth 0 -size 0 | xargs rm

or

find ./* -maxdepth 0 -size 0 -exec rm {} +

Posted on 17-Oct-07 at 4:58 pm | Permalink

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