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

With GNU's find (see comments), there is no need to use xargs :

find -name 'file*' -size 0 -delete

Answer 2

If you want to find and remove all 0-byte files in a folder:

find /path/to/folder -size 0 -delete

Answer 3

Use find combined with xargs.

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

You avoid to start rm for every file.

Answer 4

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size 0 -delete

This finds the files with size 0 in the current directory, without going into sub-directories, and deletes them.

To list the files without removing them:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size 0