Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

[tmancill <tmancill@us.lhsgroup.com>]

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

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

$ dirname="whatever_you_want_to_check"
$ count=$(ls -A1 $dirname 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
$ echo $count

I love shell...  BTW, you need the /dev/null just in case the directory
doesn't exist.

HTH,
tony

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