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andreas-h
Asked: 2013-02-09 05:53:40 +0800 CST

find files with non-zero size in shell

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I need to get a list of names of files with non-zero size inside a directory. This should be in a shell script, so bash (or a Perl one-liner) would be ideal.

bash

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    find /path/to/dir -type f -size +0
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  2. find /searchdir -type f -size +0c

    will find files with a size of one or more bytes in /searchdir and below.

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  3. Shell only, avoiding find, without recursion into subdirectories:

    bash (for unset GLOBIGNORE):

    for file in .* *; do
  test . = "$file" && continue
  test .. = "$file" && continue
  # if you just want real files, no symlinks
  # test -L "$file" && continue
  test -f "$file" || continue
  test -s "$file" || continue
  # here do what you want with what is left
done
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