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Name: mayen007
Date: February 12, 2007 at 06:26:32 Pacific
OS: linux
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Plz help me anyone ,i am new to linux env,
I wanna implement script ,that will check a directory if any files in that directory with filesize > 0 bytes,then i need to move the files to some other directory..

let say,
/app/err/ folder have some files with some content also zero bytes files .In this case i want to move valid files to app/in/ folder not the zero bytes files.

thaks in advance..

best rgds,
mayen



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Name: nails
Date: February 12, 2007 at 06:49:01 Pacific
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Replace olddir with your folder name. BTW, it's called a directory in linux/unix.

#!/bin/bash

# no error checking
find olddir -type f ! -size 0 -print|while read file
do
mv "$file" newdir
done


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