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From: pauld@stowe.cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
Subject: Re: How do I tell when a directory is empty in a script?
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References: <1991Mar30.040400.13893@ncsu.edu> <1991Mar30.225406.20493@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1991Apr3.142150.4445@athena.mit.edu> <9424@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <900@homer.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 18:05:50 GMT

In article <900@homer.UUCP> root@homer.ORG (Marc Brumlik) writes:

>it can be even easier than this...  how about:
 [ deleted ]

why not just:

	if [ "`cd $1 ; echo *`" ] ; then
	   echo "not empty"
	else
	   echo "empty"
	fi



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Paul Barton-Davis			<pauld@cs.washington.edu>
UW Computer Science Lab		``to shatter tradition makes us feel free''