On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:23 +0200, Tomas Larsson wrote: > > -----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. Yes - nice improvement Paul. > > > > Paul. > Thanks all, however for some reason 'ls $DIR' didn't work. > $(ls $DIR) did the job. You had the ticks the wrong way. But using the round brackets is equivalent. > > Now, I want to exlude sub-dirs in the ls command? Look at using the "find" command with the option -maxdepth 1 Eg. DIR_CONTENTS=$( find $DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f ) Note that this will _only_ find files, not symlinks, block/char special files, sockets etc. See the find manpage for details on "-type f". Cheers, Ben > > With best regards > > Tomas Larsson > Sweden > > Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem >
