Re: best way to test for empty dir?

[Marc Herbert]

Sven Mascheck a écrit :
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> 
>> This has been discussed more than once in c.u.s; check the
>> archives.
> 
> and that's why we better discuss it here now?

I think Chris' message was more like: "let's not discuss it at all and
just read the archives"  :-]


In case anyone is interested my winner (so far) is:

exists()
{
    [ -e "$1" -o -L "$1" ]
}

if exists foo/*; then
  for f in foo/*; do
    ...
  done
fi