https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/How-to-find-the-empty-file-in-a-subfolder-using-unix-command/m-p/717976#M38107 <P>Hello,</P> <P>I have around fifty files into a subfolder and the should have let's say fifteen variables but no observations</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I am using the following unix command but I don't get any listing of the empty file.</P> <P>Does someone knows what's wrong with that command?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>find /.../data/bkp -size 0 -type f -name "*.*"</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:53:26 GMT alepage 2021-02-09T18:53:26Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/How-to-find-the-empty-file-in-a-subfolder-using-unix-command/m-p/717976#M38107 <P>Hello,</P> <P>I have around fifty files into a subfolder and the should have let's say fifteen variables but no observations</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I am using the following unix command but I don't get any listing of the empty file.</P> <P>Does someone knows what's wrong with that command?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>find /.../data/bkp -size 0 -type f -name "*.*"</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:53:26 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/How-to-find-the-empty-file-in-a-subfolder-using-unix-command/m-p/717976#M38107 alepage 2021-02-09T18:53:26Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/How-to-find-the-empty-file-in-a-subfolder-using-unix-command/m-p/717979#M38108 <P>An empty dataset file will still have a header and therefore the first dataset page (usually 128K nowadays).</P> <P>You need to get the observations from DICTIONARY.TABLES for that library that have NOBS = 0.</P> Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:59:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/How-to-find-the-empty-file-in-a-subfolder-using-unix-command/m-p/717979#M38108 Kurt_Bremser 2021-02-09T18:59:51Z