Find empty files and their duplicates (partners)

Question

I am trying to train tesseract. The process involves creating triples of files: box files, text files and image (tif) files.

The tool that creates the .box files sometimes creates empty files. Those empty files cause problems for the engine. So, I want to delete the empty box files as well as their partners.

The whole pattern looks like the following

• File1.box
• File1.gt.txt
• File1.tif
• File2.box
• File2.gt.txt
• File2.tif

File2.box is an empty file (has zero size). I want to find and delete it as well as its partners (duplicates) such as File2.gt.txt and File2.tif.

Is this doable?

Answer 1

check this simple script,I used the find command to search for all empty .box files (-type f -name "*.box" -size 0) and then I deletes the empty .box files using the -delete flag, at the end it removes the corresponding .gt.txt and .tif files by executing the rm command within the -exec flag :

#!/bin/bash

#specifing the directory where the files are located
directory="/path/to/files"

#changing to the specified directory
cd "$directory" || exit

#find and delete empty .box files along with their partners
find . -type f -name "*.box" -size 0 -delete -exec sh -c 'rm -f "${1%.box}.gt.txt" "${1%.box}.tif"' sh {} \;