Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

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

    Marcus> can someone give me a hint how I can efficient test if a
    Marcus> certain directory is empty in the postrm (shell script)?

Here's what I did in the /etc/rc.boot/nethack script:

# Are there any lock-files to recover?
ls /var/lib/games/nethack/*lock.0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0

You can obviously replace the *lock.0 with * if you want to see
if it's completely empty.

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