Batch file to delete 0kb files in directory and sub directories 1

[Jayz]

Hi,
Could someone help write a batch file that will look into a particular folder (including sub folders)on my pc and delete any files that are 0kb in size.

much appreciated

 

[stduc]

You can search for files at most 1KB in size and then sort the results by size and delete the 0KB ones. (0 KB search doesn't work!)

 

[smah]

This will be a fun excersize. I'll start with this

@echo off
::Set directory of files to be processed
set datadir=C:\Temp

::Create the list of files to be deleted
dir %datadir% /A:-d /O:s /S | find " 0 " > list.txt

::Get the names & delete
for /F "tokens=5" %%F in (list.txt) do (
del "%datadir%\%%F"
)

del list.txt
goto :eof

Obviously, datadir will need to be changed as required. My brief testing found a few problems with this batch file (there may be others).[ol][li]Files are found in the subfolders, but the subfolder name doesn't get saved to the list.txt file, therefore deleting of subfolder items fails[/li][li]Files in list.txt that have spaces in the filename don't get parsed properly, so consequently those also fail to get deleted[/li][li]Not really a problem, but because of the last line of 'list.txt' a final failing delete also occurs[/li][/ol] There are probably other issues that I haven't noticed, but it's a start. Anyone care to expand on this?

 

[JustinEzequiel]

cable was out last night (GMT+800) so...

@ECHO OFF
PUSHD %~fs1
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=4-5" %%A IN (`DIR /X/A-D ^| FINDSTR /R "^[0-9]"`) DO IF '%%A'=='0' DEL %%~fB
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=5" %%A IN (`DIR /X/AD ^| FINDSTR /R "^[0-9]" ^| FINDSTR /V /R "\.*\.$"`) DO PUSHD %%A & CALL %~fs0 .
POPD
POPD

 

[smah]

Very nice JustinEzequiel, - much cleaner than where I would have ended up.