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need to delete 0 byte files
Name: User9987 Date: October 17, 2006 at 02:50:48 Pacific OS: w2k CPU/Ram: non relevant Product: non relevant
Comment:
I was looking for a script to delete 0 byte files from the command line ...
The reason for that is that I then can do a check with "if exist FILE" to determine success or not.
If sees a zero-byte file as a file, and hence cannot make a difference between a non-empty and an empty file ...
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: October 17, 2006 at 04:49:42 Pacific
Reply:
No idea what your 2nd and 3rd paragraphs are driving at. But this should take care of deleting 0 length files.
::== Z2.bat @echo off for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%F in ('dir /s/b/a-d \temp') do ( if 0 equ %%~zF echo del "%%F" )
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Response Number 2
Name: User9987 Date: October 18, 2006 at 05:55:33 Pacific
Reply:
C:\Tools>for /f "tokens=* delims=" %F in ('dir /s/b/a-d \temp') do ( Syntax error
C:\Tools>if 0 equ %~zF echo del "%F" Syntax error
C:\Tools>) Bad command or file name
Lots of errors there. The reason is that I generate tempfile, some of them are empty, some are not. I want to see the diff between them, so I delete the 0 byte files, then check on existance.
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Response Number 3
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: October 19, 2006 at 02:26:52 Pacific
Reply:
It won't work at the prompt.
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Response Number 4
Name: User9987 Date: October 20, 2006 at 13:20:41 Pacific
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This was output from an echo-enabled batch file ... I guess W98 is different after all.
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Response Number 5
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: October 21, 2006 at 01:15:22 Pacific
Reply:
98 runs on DOS. NT is a completely different OS.
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Response Number 6
Name: User9987 Date: October 21, 2006 at 10:08:54 Pacific
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A changed FOR loop doesn't make an OS totally different. Unix is totally different. Windows 98, 95, NT and XP are quite compatible.
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Response Number 7
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: October 21, 2006 at 11:06:21 Pacific
Reply:
OK, if you say so.
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