Add Delete Empty Files With Find as a Unix TIL

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unix/delete-empty-files-with-find.md

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+# Delete Empty Files With Find
+
+I was discussing a command with a colleague for finding and deleting empty files
+from a given directory. This command involved a series of pipes and I probably
+wouldn't have solved it too differently. I was curious what other ways there
+were of doing such a task, so I asked Claude. The first option it came back with
+taught me about two new-to-me flags that `find` supports.
+
+First is the `-empty` flag which applies a filter on the results to files or
+directories that are empty.
+
+Second is the `-delete` flag which will delete found files and directories.
+
+Those two can be combined to _delete_ any results that are _empty_. Then to
+target just _files_, I can include the `-type f` flag. And if I want to prevent
+it from recursing down some unexpected tree of directories, I could also add in
+`-maxdepth 1`.
+
+To delete all empty files in `specific-directory`, I can run the following:
+
+```bash
+❯ find ./specific-directory -maxdepth 1 -type f -empty -delete
+```
+
+My first thought for a command like this is that I will need to `xargs rm`, so
+it's neat to know about the `-delete` flag in particular.
+
+See `man find` for more details.