To find and delete empty files in Linux, find command can be used as below,

find . -type f -size 0 -delete

To find and delete empty directories use,

find . -type d -empty -delete

• . - will start the search from the current path
• -type f - match only files
• -type d - match only directories
• -size 0 - look for files of 0 size
• -empty - match empty files or directories in path
• -delete - delete files found in search

NOTE:

Take care to use delete only at the end, using it in beginning after path will make find first delete all files in path before matching other arguments.

Also, -delete implies -depth, which means it processes directory contents before directory itself.