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Shell Programming and Scripting
1

can anyone tell me how i can see if a directory contains no files
thus is empty
i use bash

2

man ls
man wc

ls -la | wc -l

This will include the "." and ".." directories too.

3

thank you but i think i made a wrong expression
i want to test if a directory is empty.
has nofiles in it
excuse me for the confusion

4

If you are looking for code:

#! /bin/ksh

tot_files=`ls -la | wc -l`

if [ $tot_files -ge 2 ]
then
        echo " DIR not empty"
else
        echo " DIR empty"
fi
5

thx now i see where it is getting at

THANK YOU for your reply