On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:03 +0200, Tomas Larsson wrote: > Dear group. > How do I do to, within a scrip, check if a directory I empty or not. > Cant find a way to do this in a simple way. DIR_CONTENTS=`ls $DIR` if [ "$DIR_CONTENTS" == "" ] then echo "$DIR is empty" else echo "$DIR contains:" echo $DIR_CONTENTS fi Cheers, Ben > > With best regards > > Tomas Larsson > Sweden > > Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem >
