A simple command line utility for removing zero-length files from directory structures. Don't download this if you're not cool with using a command prompt! Oh, and if you're going to use it regularly, you should probably put it in your path somewhere.

KillZero works (under Windows) by generating a list of files in a directory structure (harvested from a dir *.* /s command). It then checks those files for size; any with a length of zero bytes is tagged for deletion.

In order to keep from running amok, the deletion commands are not run automatically, but are instead written to a batch file which then issues the deletion commands (so you can double-check it first if you'd like).

Please note that it will take some time to scan larger directory structures. The example above took about four or five minutes I think on a P4-2.8 machine.

Shannon
shannon at bme zine dot com