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#! /bin/bash
#
#Derived from:
#
#From: damercer@mmm.com (Dan Mercer)
#Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.sys.sun.admin
#Subject: Re: Command to find out if a directory is empty
#Date: 17 Aug 2000 14:35:56 GMT
#Message-ID: <8ngt8c$fmr$1@magnum.mmm.com>
# usage: emptydir [dirname] ; default dirname is "."
emptydir()
{
typeset file dir=${1:-.}
[[ -d $dir ]] || {
echo "$FUNCNAME: $dir is not a directory" >&2
return 2
}
for file in $dir/.* $dir/*
do
case ${file#$dir/} in
.|..) ;;
\*) [[ -e $file ]];let $?;return;;
*) return 1;;
esac
done
}