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How to delete many 0 byte files in linux?

I've a directory with many number of 0 byte files in it. I can't even see the files when I use the ls command. I'm using a small script to delete these files but sometimes that does not even delete these files. Here is the script:

i=100
while [ $i -le 999 ];do
    rm -f file${i}*;
    let i++;
done

Is there any other way to do this more quickly?

Solution

  • Use find combined with xargs.

    find . -name 'file*' -size 0 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

    You avoid to start rm for every file.