Find all zero-byte files in directory and subdirectories

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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

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As addition to the answers above   If you would like to delete those files  find  dir -size 0 -type f -delete

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No  you don t have to bother grep   find  dir -size 0   -name    xml

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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  amp  amp  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

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Bash 4  tested - This is the correct way to search for size 0   find  path to dir -size 0 -type f -name    xml    Search for  multiple file extensions of size 0   find  path to dir -size 0 -type f    -iname    css -o -iname    js      Note  If you removed the             the results would be all of the files that meet this requirement hence ignoring the size 0

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