deleting all files with 0 size

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I tried with

 
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size 0 | xargs rm -f

but, getting the error

find: bad option -maxdepth

seems maxdepth is not there in my system. m using HP-UX
Please help.

2

try this

find . -type f -size 0 | xargs rm -f
3 
find .  \( ! -name . -prune \) -type f -size 0c | xargs -i rm -f {} \;

I think that should do it.
Hope it helps,
Cam

4

If no file has space in name, you can try below command:

ls -l|awk '!/^d/&&$5==0 {print "rm ",$NF}'

After confirm, then add |sh after awk command.

ls -l|awk '!/^d/&&$5==0 {print "rm ",$NF}'  |sh
5 
ruby -e 'Dir["**/**"].each{|f| File.unlink(f) if File.size(f)==0}'
6

But, all of those solutions are are causing
all the 0 size files to be removed recursively from its child directories .

my requirement is to remove the 0 size files from the current directory only.

and what is the use of

|sh

could not be sure on that.

7

The solution from Cameron in post #3 looks sound. It just needs to lose the \; at the end of the line.

Test it first with an echo to see what commands will be executed.

find .  \( ! -name . -prune \) -type f -size 0c | xargs -i echo rm -f {}

find .  \( ! -name . -prune \) -type f -size 0c | xargs -i rm -f {}
8

the first command " ls ... |awk " will give the list that which files need be deleted (they are in current folders).

the outputs like: (only display, but not executed)

rm file1
rm file2

second command by |sh will executed the rm command.