[PLUG] One-liners

Jameson Williams jameson at jamesonwilliams.com
Wed Jul 29 00:35:57 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Andrew Brookins <a.m.brookins at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey, list,
>
> This is kind of a pedestrian request, but hey, it's like 104 degrees
> outside.
>
> I wanted to remove all empty files in a directory today, so I typed
> this command:
>
>  ls -s | grep -e '^ 0' | sed 's/^...//' | xargs -n1 rm -v
>
> Then I was like, WTF, three pipes?  And I wondered how many variations
> on this kind of thing there were.  There's also this one, which I just
> pulled from http://www.linux.ie/newusers/beginners-linux-guide/find.php:
>
>  find . -empty -maxdepth 1 -exec rm {} \;
>
>  But maybe you have a better one?  Or if not, maybe you can share your
> favorite one-liner?
>
> Andrew
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Andrew, I like your find command -- that's the most concise I can think of.
find, ssh, xargs, and the bash <<< redirect are all good for making concise
and powerful one-liners.

Here's another version of yours, though doesn't hit the hidden stuff:

find * -prune -empty -exec rm {}\;



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