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From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To: Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net>
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Subject: Re: Howto determine if directory is empty
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> I'm currently using this:
> 
> if [ -d $mydir -a `cd $mydir; ls -la | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'` -eq 2 ]
> then
> 	echo 'empty'
> else
> 	echo 'not empty (or not a directory)'
> fi
> 
> Is there a better way ( preferrably shorter ) to do it?

With GNU find you can do:

	find wherever -type d -empty

to get a list of empty directories.
--
Trevor Johnson
http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt



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