Can you please figure out what is the issue here
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size 0 -print
find: bad option -maxdepth
please find the OS details
$ uname -a
HP-UX g5u1216 B.11.31 U ia64 2614088426 unlimited-user license
maxdepth is a GNU-ism, try -depth instead.
As far as I can tell POSIX compliance for find does not support -maxdepth or -mindepth as arguments to the find command.
The find -depth primary produces a post-order walk of the file hierarchy instead of the default pre-order walk; it has no effect on how deep find goes as it walks the hierarchy. To get what TomG requested, just using standard find primaries, try:
find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( -type f -size 0 -print \)
or if the name of the directory being searched was specified by a variable:
find "$dir" \( -type d ! -name "$dir" -prune \) -o \( -type f -size 0 -print \)
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You can skip -type d before the ! -name . -prune .
(And then it becomes clear you don't need the brackets.)
Just seeing you must switch the order, too:
find . -type f -size 0 -print -o ! -name . -prune
Hi Don,
Can you please tell me why -o is used. I am confused,because both conditions in the brackets have to be satisfied right. So can we use an 'and' condition.
Thank You
From the (Linux) man page:
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I have a general pattern that I remember that works for lots of cases. Your problem is simpler than many and in this specific case, I should have given you the much simpler command:
find . ! -name . -prune -type f -size 0
or:
find "$dir" ! -name "$dir" -prune -type f -size 0
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