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laggingreflex
laggingreflex

Reputation: 34627

How to check if a file is not empty in Batch

There are several ways google throws at me for checking if a file is empty but I need to do the opposite.

If (file is NOT empty)

do things

How would I do this in batch?

Upvotes: 24

Views: 70106

Answers (4)

Hashbrown
Hashbrown

Reputation: 13013

You can leverage subroutines/external batch files to get to useful parameter modifiers which solve this exact problem

@Echo OFF
(Call :notEmpty file.txt && (
    Echo the file is not empty
)) || (
    Echo the file is empty
)
::exit script, you can `goto :eof` if you prefer that
Exit /B


::subroutine
:notEmpty
If %~z1 EQU 0 (Exit /B 1) Else (Exit /B 0)

Alternatively

notEmpty.bat

@Echo OFF
If %~z1 EQU 0 (Exit /B 1) Else (Exit /B 0)

yourScript.bat

Call notEmpty.bat file.txt
If %errorlevel% EQU 0 (
    Echo the file is not empty
) Else (
    Echo the file is empty
)

Upvotes: 4

risingDarkness
risingDarkness

Reputation: 708

this should work:

for %%R in (test.dat) do if not %%~zR lss 1 echo not empty

help if says that you can add the NOT directly after the if to invert the compare statement

Upvotes: 9

Bali C
Bali C

Reputation: 31221

for /f %%i in ("file.txt") do set size=%%~zi
if %size% gtr 0 echo Not empty

Upvotes: 28

David Brabant
David Brabant

Reputation: 43489

set "filter=*.txt"
for %%A in (%filter%) do if %%~zA==0 echo."%%A" is empty

Type help for in a command line to have explanations about the ~zA part

Upvotes: 4

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