Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

[john@dhh.gt.org]

Marcus Brinkmann writes:
>   [ `ls -1 $dir` ]
> This does not work. If the dir contains no file, it is "[ ]",
> which returns 0, which is fine. If it contains more than one file, it is too
> many arguments, therefore returning 1, which is also fine. But if it
> contains one file, it returns 0, which is wrong.

Should read:

[ "`ls -1A $dir`" ]

This returns '1' if the directory is empty and '0' otherwise.  It is not
tricked by spaces or other unusual characters in file names.
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