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| From: | Andreas Schwab |
| Subject: | Re: best way to test for empty dir? |
| Date: | Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:28:12 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
> It's just a positional-parameter variant of:
>
> files=("/tmp/emptydir"/*)
> if [[ -e ${files[0]} ]] ...
This will still fail if the first file happens to be a dangling symlink.
Andreas.
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