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Option for filtering empty files/directories #273

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clarfonthey opened this issue Mar 30, 2018 · 2 comments · Fixed by #319
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Option for filtering empty files/directories #273

clarfonthey opened this issue Mar 30, 2018 · 2 comments · Fixed by #319
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This is something that find has that would be very nice to have.
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sharkdp commented Apr 3, 2018

Thank you for your feedback!

In my point of view, searching for empty files/directories is a rather niche use case and I would only consider adding it, if there is a strong support for this (see the part about "80% of the use cases" in the README).

Also, I would like us to think about alternatives to a new --empty command line option. One option could be to extend the --type option with a new "empty" type. Another option could be to use --size 0 (if we decide to move forward with #276).

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sharkdp added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 19, 2018
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Add --type empty
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Add a new `empty`/`e` type to search for empty files and/or directories.

To search for both empty files and directories, use one of the
following:

    fd --type empty
    fd -te

    fd --type empty --type file --type directory

To search for empty files, use

    fd --type empty --type file
    fd -te -tf

To search for empty directories, use

    fd --type empty --type directory
    fd -te -td

closes #273
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sharkdp commented Aug 19, 2018

Released in v7.1.0, see #319 for details.

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