skip empty files

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/plot_ecrts b/plot_ecrts
index 3bcd004..2b33575 100755
--- a/plot_ecrts
+++ b/plot_ecrts
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ function plot_file {
     STRIPPED=`get_tmp_file`
     # remove comments for Gnuplot
     egrep -v '^#' $FILE > $STRIPPED
+    if [ ! -s $STRIPPED ]
+    then
+        echo "Skipping $FILE since there wasn't any data to be found. "
+        return
+    fi
     # decode file name
     PARAMS=
     for KV in `echo $NAME | sed -e 's/_/ /g'`