How do I tell when a directory is empty in a script?

[Paul Barton-Davis]

In article <900 at homer.UUCP> root at homer.ORG (Marc Brumlik) writes:

>it can be even easier than this...  how about:
 [ deleted ]

why not just:

	if [ "`cd $1 ; echo *`" ] ; then
	   echo "not empty"
	else
	   echo "empty"
	fi



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Paul Barton-Davis			<pauld at cs.washington.edu>
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