David Carek
Reputation: 1113
How to copy files if size nonzero in shell?
I have some files that I want to copy from one directory to another with a shell script but I only want to copy the ones that have something in them. Right now this is what I have but it won't check to make sure that the files aren't empty. cp -f /some/folder/* /another/folder/
Is there an easy way to do this?
Upvotes: 5
Views: 3178
Answers (1)
anubhava
Reputation: 785196
You can use find command for this:
find . -type f -size +0 -print0 | xargs -0 -I % cp % /dest/
-size +0 will get files with size greater than zero.
Upvotes: 4
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