I have a file called diff.txt. I want to check whether it is empty.
I wrote a bash script something like below, but I couldn't get it work.
if [ -s diff.txt ]
then
touch empty.txt
rm full.txt
else
touch full.txt
rm empty.txt
fi
try this:
#!/bin/bash -e
if [ -s diff.txt ]; then
# The file is not-empty.
rm -f empty.txt
touch full.txt
else
# The file is empty.
rm -f full.txt
touch empty.txt
fi
Notice incidentally, that I have swapped the roles of empty.txt
and full.txt
, as @Matthias suggests.