Shell Script to Delete Empty Files in Directory

Script to delete all empty files in a directory. This was specially designed for directories that have hundreds of thousands of files in them (ls has a limitation for directories with a large number of files in them, so find must be used)



#!/bin/bash
# Example: ./delete_empty_files.sh /home/random_files/

usage()
{
        echo "Usage: $0 Directory_Name"
        exit 1;
}

test -d "$1" || usage

function test_and_delete()
{
  while read line1; do
     size=`stat -c %s $line1`
     if [ $size -lt 1 ]; then
     #echo "$line1 is $size ( This one is empty ) "
     rm -f $line1
  else
     #echo "$line1 is $size "
  fi
  done
}
cd $1
find -name "*" | test_and_delete