find files with non-zero size in shell

Question

I need to get a list of names of files with non-zero size inside a directory. This should be in a shell script, so bash (or a Perl one-liner) would be ideal.

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 08 '13 at 13:58

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find /path/to/dir -type f -size +0

answered Feb 08 '13 at 13:58

Jenny D

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 08 '13 at 13:57

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find /searchdir -type f -size +0c

will find files with a size of one or more bytes in /searchdir and below.

answered Feb 08 '13 at 13:57

Sven

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That will find directories as well as files. – Jenny D Feb 08 '13 at 13:59

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 08 '13 at 14:31

Shell only, avoiding find, without recursion into subdirectories:

bash (for unset GLOBIGNORE):

for file in .* *; do
  test . = "$file" && continue
  test .. = "$file" && continue
  # if you just want real files, no symlinks
  # test -L "$file" && continue
  test -f "$file" || continue
  test -s "$file" || continue
  # here do what you want with what is left
done

find files with non-zero size in shell

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