How to Get Files with Size Greater than 0 Bytes in CMD

You can use the forfiles command in Command Prompt (CMD) to list files with a size greater than 0 bytes in a directory:

forfiles /P directory_path /M * /C "cmd /c if @fsize gtr 0 echo @path"

In this example, the forfiles command followed by a path lists all files in the specified directory with a size greater than 0 bytes.

The following example shows how to use this syntax in practice.

Example: How to Get Files with Size Greater Than 0 in CMD

Suppose that we want to list files with a size greater than 0 bytes in the following directory:

C:\Users\admin\Documents\cmd_script

We can type the following command to list the files:

forfiles /P C:\Users\admin\Documents\cmd_script /M * /C "cmd /c if @fsize gtr 0 echo @path"

Output: 👇️

CMD - Get files with size greater than 0 bytes — CMD – Get files with a size greater than 0 bytes

We can see that all files with a size greater than 0 bytes in C:\Users\admin\Documents\cmd_script are listed.

Conclusion

In this article, we use the forfiles command followed by the directory path to list files with a size greater than 0 bytes in a directory on your system.

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