Re: RFE: find <path> -d -size 0 => doesn't find empty directories

[Norton Allen <allen at huarp dot harvard dot edu>]

On 10/31/2018 7:02 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> Something I can use on my /tmp files on linux is a find command:
>
> find /tmp -size 0 -delete
>
> to delete zero-len-files or empty-directories in /tmp.

What flavor of Linux are you using where this works for you? I'm running 
Ubuntu 16.04 at the moment, and I just tried the following in an 
otherwise empty directory:

   $ mkdir b
   $ find . -size 0

The directory 'b' did not show up, hence was not reporting as size 0. 
The man page for -size does not mention any special behavior for 
directories as opposed to regular files, so I would expect Linux to 
never report any directory as size 0, since they always have '.' and 
'..' entries, as you suggested.


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