bash script to delete files

[cloverm]

I need a bash script that will delete all files that are less than 1MB in the /home/user folder. Can someone help me out?

Can I suggest either Ruby or Python? *this will be much easier.

Pseudo-code:

Get all the files of /home/blah in a list/array
Remove '.' and '..' from that list
Scan every file in that list (for i in list)
 *If file size is below 1024 kb then remove file

And since both Python and Ruby got functions to get a while dir into a list and to get a file's size and to remove a file, this could be like 15 lines of Python maximum

[cloverm]

I could definetly do this in Perl, but I figured it would be a lot simpler in bash, I just don't have any experience with it.

Give me 30 minutes cassette keeping dude.

[cloverm]

Give me 30 minutes cassette keeping dude.

???

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

begin
 d = Dir.new(ARGV[0])
rescue
 puts "Invalid directory"
 exit 1
end

d.each do |f|
 next if (f == ".") or (f == "..")

 if File.size(ARGV[0] + "/" + f) < 1048576
  begin
   File.open(ARGV[0] + f, "w+")
  rescue
   File.close(f)
   next
  end

  File.delete(ARGV[0] + "/" + f)
  
 end
end

Python version coming later tonight

Python version:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os, sys

try:
 files = os.listdir(sys.argv[1])
except OSError:
 print sys.argv[1], ": no such directory"
 sys.exit(1)

for f in files:
 size = (os.lstat(sys.argv[1] + "/" + f))[6] # The 7th element is the file size

 if size < 1048576:
  try:
   os.remove(sys.argv[1] + '/' + f)
  except OSError:
   continue

These were done kindda fast, so report any bug you may find! Enjoy and I hope this will help you.

And I noticed it took 29 minutes to give you the 2 versions ;D Kindda good if you ask me

[stiles]

you do not even really need a script, find and rm can do it just fine.

find /home/user -size -1024k -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec rm {} \;

you do not even really need a script, find and rm can do it just fine.

find /home/user -size -1024k -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec rm {} \;

Pffff...You didn't learn that the file stats are in a tuple in Python, you didn't learn the name of the exception, etc. *Plus, mine is faster to run:

./clover.py /home/vince/

But find and rm are clever And people who say that Windows "Search file" facility is powerful have NO idea what they are talking about.