finding zero kb files

[madhudeepan]

i need to list the 0kb files in a particular dir

and need to know how many files present,,, how can i do it

[Dennis Handly]

Files have sizes in bytes. What is 0 Kb? Something that is less than 512, or exactly 0 bytes?

You could use "ls directory | wc -l" to count the files.

You could use awk to do both:
ll directory | awk '
BEGIN { count = 0 }
NF >= 9 {
count += 1
if ($5 < 512) print $0
}
END { print "Total files:", count } '

[Duncan Edmonstone]

you could try:

cd /mydir
find . -size 0 -type f

and of course for a total:

cd /mydir
find . -size 0 -type f | wc -l

of course that find will walk sub-dirs, so if you want to exclude those try:

cd /mydir
find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -size 0 -type f

and

cd /mydir
find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -size 0 -type f | wc -l

My find syntax is pretty lame though, so there may be a better way to get that...

HTH

Duncan

[Dennis Handly]

>Duncan: My find syntax is pretty lame though, so there may be a better way to get that.

You could remove the \( \), since the default is "-a".

[Sunny123_1]

Hi


find / -size 0 -exec ll {} \;


Regards
sunny

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi,
cd
ls -l|awk '$9&&!$5 {print $0;i++} END { print i}'

HTH,
Art