Find all zero-byte files in directory and subdirectories

Question

How can I find all zero-byte files in a directory and its subdirectories?

I have done this:

#!/bin/bash lns=`vdir -R *.* $dir| awk '{print $8"\t"$5}'` temp="" for file in $lns; do     if test $file = "0"; then         printf $temp"\t"$file"\n"     fi     temp=$file done 

But, I only get results in the current directory, not subdirs, and if any file name contains a space then I get only first word followed by tab

Answer 1

To print the names of all files in and below $dir of size 0:

find "$dir" -size 0 

Note that not all implementations of find will produce output by default, so you may need to do:

find "$dir" -size 0 -print 

Two comments on the final loop in the question:

Rather than iterating over every other word in a string and seeing if the alternate values are zero, you can partially eliminate the issue you're having with whitespace by iterating over lines. eg:

printf '1 f1\n0 f 2\n10 f3\n' | while read size path; do     test "$size" -eq 0 && echo "$path"; done 

Note that this will fail in your case if any of the paths output by ls contain newlines, and this reinforces 2 points: don't parse ls, and have a sane naming policy that doesn't allow whitespace in paths.

Secondly, to output the data from the loop, there is no need to store the output in a variable just to echo it. If you simply let the loop write its output to stdout, you accomplish the same thing but avoid storing it.