Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

[olet@ifi.uio.no (Ole J. Tetlie)]

*-Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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| I need something that returns an error code if the directory is empty but
| does return 0 if it is non-empty.

I don't know how portable this is, but this seems to work for
me in bash:

test -d empty -a $(ls -l empty | wc -l) -eq 1

This returns 0 if "empty" is a dir and it is empty.

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