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How to know when a file is empty...
Name: JayF Date: September 22, 2005 at 18:53:04 Pacific OS: XP Pro/Gentoo CPU/Ram: 2500+/256Mb
Comment:
Hi all,
I've been reading quite a bit and have still only found one way of knowing when a file is empty. It's a question one of my teacher asked : find two ways to know a file is empty.
So far I've come up with one,
ls --size if it's 0 in block then it's empty right?
I can't think of another though, beside opening it to check which would be cheesy and doesn't seems like the kind of answer he would like ;)
Name: JayF Date: September 22, 2005 at 19:22:12 Pacific
Reply:
mmmh well further experiment brought files sizes up with the command ls followed with various attributes so I guess I got two different ways of knowing if a file size is 0. I feel like I'm missing something here somehow, that question seem too easy.
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