Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> writes: > Do you also need a specific tool to check if a file is zero length? > Because "touch file; [ -f file -a 0 -eq "$(stat -c%s file)" ] && echo > boom" is a similar level of complexity, since merely going stat -c%s > file doesn't prove that file exits and isn't a directory...
test -f file && ! test -s file is probably slightly faster since test is typically a builtin (not that it really matters). Collin
