On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:40:18PM -0500, Jason Giangrande wrote:
> Does anyone know how to check if a directory is empty? I tried the
> following:
>
> if [ -d "/dir/to/remove" -a ! -s "/dir/to/remove" ]; then
Directories always have size > 0.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:mjinks$ mkdir foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:mjinks$ ls -ld foo
drwxr-xr-x 2 mjinks users 48 Mar 31 12:37 foo
> Even if the directory (in this example "remove") is empty (has no other
> files or folders) the else statement runs, which means the directory
> does not get removed. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
There's probably a better way, but why not just use rmdir? It won't
remove a directory with anything in it.
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