How to delete many 0 byte files in linux?

Question

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 sometime

Answer 1

"...sometimes that does not even delete these files" makes me think this might be something you do regularly. If so, this Perl script will remove any zero-byte regular files in your current directory. It avoids rm altogether by using a system call (unlink), and is quite fast.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my @files = glob "* .*";
for (@files) {
    next unless -e and -f;
    unlink if -z;
}