Ben Stringer wrote:
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:03 +0200, Tomas Larsson wrote:
> Dear group.
> How do I do to, within a scrip, check if a directory I empty or not.
> Cant find a way to do this in a simple way.
DIR_CONTENTS=`ls $DIR`
if [ "$DIR_CONTENTS" == "" ]
then
echo "$DIR is empty"
else
echo "$DIR contains:"
echo $DIR_CONTENTS
fi
I'd use "ls -A $DIR" there rather than "ls $DIR" so as to spot
files
with names starting with a dot.
Paul.