How Do I Remove a Zero Byte in Unix?
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To delete all zero byte files in the current directory and sub-directories, use the following find command syntax. The -type f option makes sure that we are working on a regular file and not on directories or other special files. The -delete action is not available on all find command implementations.

How do I delete a zero byte in Unix?

Use find combined with xargs . You avoid to start rm for every file. And if are looking to delete the 0 byte files in subdirectories as well, omit -maxdepth 1 in previous command and execute. This finds the files with size 0 in the current directory, without going into sub-directories, and deletes them.

How do I delete a zero byte file?

From the Empty Files tab, click Mark all Files and then click Delete Files. Similarly, to delete the 0-byte files in the selected folder tree, click on the Empty Files tab.

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