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Re: best way to test for empty dir?


From: Antonio Macchi
Subject: Re: best way to test for empty dir?
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:40:40 +0100
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is_file()
{
    [ -f "$1" ] && return
    return 1
}

is_file /path/to/dir/* || echo empty



you don't need to check more than the first element





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