I recently saw a server glitch where an automated system created thousands of files with no content—0b. Once they were created, they became really hard to remove.
I solved it by running:
find /srv/www/ -size 0b
This let me know where all the funky files were. Then I tested on a deep folder… and then:
find /srv/www/ -size 0b -delete
removed them all, allowing the system to re-publish them correctly.
Would this work on directories, too? Say, if I had somehow
accidentally uploaded hundreds of “_notes” directories back before
I became an enlightened BBEdit user?
Sure! Try this:
find /srv/www/ -name '_notes' -delete(Of course, substitute /srv/www/ with the actual path to your website…