CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Reputation: 477

Remove all files under 600 bytes

I've seen questions about how I can remove all files under a certain file size, but none of them have dealt with very small files (most of mine are simple .txt files that contain 500-1200 characters). All of the solutions I've seen so far look something like 

find . -size -1k -delete

I've tried using the following:

find . -size -600
find . -size -600b
find . -size -0.6k

None of which worked, can someone tell me how to make this method work for smaller file sizes? (I'm sure I'm just missing a trailing character after the 600)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (2)

Alberto Zaccagni
Alberto Zaccagni

Reputation: 31560

You should use 

find . -size -600c

for bytes

Upvotes: 1

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 881373

c is the size specifier for bytes, it means characters. The b variant that you may think would work is actually for blocks (of 512 bytes each).

It's all contained in detail in the manpage for find:

-size n[cwbkMG]
    File uses n units of space.  The following suffixes can be used:
        'b'  for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is used)
        'c'  for bytes
        'w'  for two-byte words
        'k'  for Kilobytes (units of 1024 bytes)
        'M'  for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes)
        'G'  for Gigabytes (units of 1073741824 bytes)

Upvotes: 5

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