Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 28,  3:13pm, Aaron Davies wrote:
} Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?
}
} On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 02:21 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
} 
} > It's not possible to tell if a directory is empty without actually 
} > looking for files in it.
} 
} Thanks much. In that case, could I make this a feature request?

What I meant was, the filesystem typically doesn't provide any way to
discover whether a directory is empty without looking for files in it.

So even if zsh implemented an "empty directory" globbing flag internally,
it'd be doing effectively the same thing as the function I showed.  And
that must be what "find ... -empty" is doing as well.