Re^2: selcting a specific file

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Re^3: selcting a specific file by andyford (Curate) on Oct 22, 2007 at 22:24 UTC
That's my point. -z is looking for a zero byte file, but 'no content' could be a bunch of tabs and spaces. `[forda@hqnagtl1 ~]$ touch emptytest1 [forda@hqnagtl1 ~]$ touch emptytest2 [forda@hqnagtl1 ~]$ ls -l emptytest* -rw-rw-r-- 1 forda forda 0 Oct 22 17:19 emptytest1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 forda forda 0 Oct 22 17:19 emptytest2 [forda@hqnagtl1 ~]$ echo ' ' >> emptytest2 [forda@hqnagtl1 ~]$ ls -l emptytest* -rw-rw-r-- 1 forda forda 0 Oct 22 17:19 emptytest1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 forda forda 15 Oct 22 17:20 emptytest2` [download] I put some spaces into a formerly empty file and now it has a size of 15. non-Perl: Andy Ford	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: selcting a specific file by Anonymous Monk on Oct 22, 2007 at 23:33 UTC
wht command did you select for getting such an output???	[reply]
Re^5: selcting a specific file by andyford (Curate) on Oct 23, 2007 at 10:52 UTC
Sorry, I should have mentioned that my example is on Unix. The point is that for -z to flag a file as empty, it must have nothing in it. No spaces, no tabs, no nothing. non-Perl: Andy Ford	[reply]