Script delete 0kb files

United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. Windows PowerShell. Sign in to vote. Hi Everyone, I've a requirement where the I've to delete the contents of a folder which is of size 0kb.

Assuming then that there is some sort of consistency to it, could you perhaps check for a string of text within the document and delete it if it's missing?

I'm afraid I know nothing about PowerShell but if I was writing this script, that's something I'd be looking at. Ok I feel I'm getting there but can't quite finalise this at the moment. So far I have Code:. So the file is still open for read by select-string when it is passed to remove-item because the pipe is feeding the next component remove-item before it has finished with the previous reading the item.

I think. You might need two passes. Get the file paths into an array first and then delete them once that is complete. Last edited 19th November at PM. Thanks for the help but managed to get this working with the following code in the end Code:.

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This works on my machine:. Note that if you don't specify a specific folder location for found. If you don't want that, either specify a path for that file or change into that folder using cd in the batch file:. Collecting output and delaying the "write to file" part isn't that simple in batch. It's easier to write the output to a file regardless, and delete the file if you encounter a file with non-zero size. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

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Joey Thanks for editing the post Joey! You want to write the result only if the folder has some files with 0kb size, or if the folder only has 0kb files and no other files? What's with the "batch script, new to batch script, here's my batch script" - tag [powershell]?

TessellatingHeckler Hello, yes I want to write the output to a file only when any of the files in the folder contains 0kb size and the folder can have "n" number of files with various sizes, but I am interested to write the file if any of the files are of 0kb size. To be more precise, I am looking for this solution either from batch script or powershell script anything will suffice.

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