Hello,

I am trying to append "_EMPTY" to the end of a bunch of empty files in the same directory. I am able to list the files to be appended with this:

find /Users/iannelson/Desktop/EmptyFile -size +0

I have tried various methods of sed and awk to append, but I really haven't found a good example that explains how to use them, so i can't figure out what is necessary. Also, I'm not certain that I can get it done with one line, I may need a for loop. Here is one of my for loops:
for file in ?; do
apname=${_EMPTY}
mv $file '$apname'
done
*Not sure what to put for the ?.

or this one:

for loopEmptyFiles in $emptyfiles
do
originName=$(echo $loopEmptyFiles|awk '{?}');
newName=$ originName"_EMPTY"
echo "Appending $newName";
done

*Not sure what goes between the brackets.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I also have a few more scripts I could use some help on, hope I don't overwhelm you guys

Why would you need to add "empty"? ls -l shows what is empty already. In a script, "find <path> -size 0" will find them. (-size 0, not -size +0)

I'm thinking there has to be a way of doing this with "find .....|xargs mv", but I don't have it yet.

find /Users/iannelson/Desktop/EmptyFile -size 0 -execdir mv {} {}_empty \;

should work

Yeah, I know it's kinda goofy, but that's my assignment. I have to create or locate a directory and list all the zero length files, then append "_EMPTY" to each of them. And when I did:

find /Users/iannelson/Desktop/EmptyFile -size +0 w/o the "+" it didn't list the files.

Alright this kinda worked:

find /Users/iannelson/Desktop/EmptyFile -size +0 -execdir mv {} {}_EMPTY \;

I had to put the +0 in because it doesn't work at all if I don't. Also it renames all the files in the directory, even ones that are not empty. Thank you though, that got me further along.