How to find the empty file in a subfolder using unix command

[alepage]

Hello,

I have around fifty files into a subfolder and the should have let's say fifteen variables but no observations

I am using the following unix command but I don't get any listing of the empty file.

Does someone knows what's wrong with that command?

find /.../data/bkp -size 0 -type f -name "*.*"

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

An empty dataset file will still have a header and therefore the first dataset page (usually 128K nowadays).

You need to get the observations from DICTIONARY.TABLES for that library that have NOBS = 0.