Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

[phumpherys@utah-inter.net]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> 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.

-1 won't report . or .., but will return *nothing* of the
directory is empty.  

Now, with perl you can use opendir().  I don't know what you'd
use with shell if you needed an error code.

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