On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I need something that returns an error code if the directory is empty but > does return 0 if it is non-empty.
$ dirname="whatever_you_want_to_check"
$ count=$(ls -A1 $dirname 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
$ echo $count
I love shell... BTW, you need the /dev/null just in case the directory
doesn't exist.
HTH,
tony
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