testing if a directory is empty (OOOPS!)

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1991Apr15.195513.17840 at beaver.cs.washington.edu>
pauld at cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:

	...

| So it needs to be:
| 
| 	[ "`cd $1 ; echo .??* *`" = ".??* *" ]
| 
| this picks up a dot files too (anyone who has a dot file called ".a"
| should be taken out and shot :-)

It still isn't any reason to fail.  Off of the top of my head, the
following should work:

	[ "`cd $1; echo .[^.] .??* *`" = ".[^.] .??* *" ]
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Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?