From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 17:35:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hcisp.net (Stargate.hcisp.net [208.60.89.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3129337B9FF for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 17:35:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@mysql.com) Received: (qmail 2970 invoked from network); 19 May 2000 00:33:46 -0000 Received: from modem5.hcisp.net (HELO threads.polyesthetic.msg) (208.60.89.71) by stargate.hcisp.net with SMTP; 19 May 2000 00:33:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 3228 invoked by uid 1001); 19 May 2000 00:12:50 -0000 From: "Thimble Smith" Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 20:12:50 -0400 To: Dan Larsson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Howto determine if directory is empty Message-ID: <20000518201250.A3093@threads.polyesthetic.msg> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from dl@tyfon.net on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:37:40PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:37:40PM +0200, Dan Larsson wrote: > if [ -d $mydir -a `cd $mydir; ls -la | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'` -eq 2 ] You could simplify your version a lot: if [ `/bin/ls -1a $mydir | wc -l` -eq 2 ] Tim -- Tim Smith < tim@mysql.com > :MySQL Development Team: Boone, NC USA. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message