for Windows10,Windows8,Windows7,VISTA,
XP,NT,Server 2000,Server 2003,Server 2008

Check File for Zero Bytes

Use FOR command to show or delete empty files.

Description: Use the `z` specifier of FOR variable references to get the size of a file. Then show or delete the file if the size is zero.

Script:

1. 2. set "filemask=myfile*.txt" for %%A in (%filemask%) do if %%~zA==0 echo."%%A" is empty

Script Output:

DOS

Script Output

"myfile2.txt" is empty
"myfile7.txt" is empty
"myfile8.txt" is empty