Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:23:09AM -0700, phumpherys@utah-inter.net wrote:
> 
> ls -1

May be I am missing something, but this does only affect the formatting of
the output of ls.

I need something that returns an error code if the directory is empty but
does return 0 if it is non-empty.

> Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> > can someone give me a hint how I can efficient test if a certain directory
> > is empty in the postrm (shell script)?

Thanks,
Marcus

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