Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ls -1 | grep .\*
Actually, I'd recommend:
ls -A | grep -q .
Reasons:
(1) You don't care if the display is single or multi-column
Thus, the -1 option of ls is useless
(2) hidden files would still mean the directory is not empty
Thus, you want ls to use the -A option
(3) You don't care about how many characters are on a line
Thus you don't need the * wildcard
(4) You have no particular use for the directory listing
Thus you want grep to use its -q option
--
Raul
