Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:23:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > ls -1 > > May be I am missing something, but this does only affect the formatting of > the output of ls.
-1 won't report . or .., but will return *nothing* of the directory is empty. Now, with perl you can use opendir(). I don't know what you'd use with shell if you needed an error code. -- Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DriverSoft Unix Systems Administrator Mobile: +1.801.725.3257 WWW/PGPkeys: http://www.spire.com/~humphery
