> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:34 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Bash problems? > > Ben Stringer wrote: > > 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 > > I'd use "ls -A $DIR" there rather than "ls $DIR" so as to > spot files with names starting with a dot. > > Paul. Thanks all, however for some reason 'ls $DIR' didn't work. $(ls $DIR) did the job. Now, I want to exlude sub-dirs in the ls command? With best regards Tomas Larsson Sweden Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem
