Re: Maildir empty?

[Klaus Wacker <wacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Klaus Wacker wrote:
> > Dear zsh, is there a zsh-internal way to find out whether a maildir is
> > empty? Or more generally, whether a directory tree contains no
> > files?
> 
> This will be fixed in 4.2.1 with the syntax `*(/^F)'.  (F) (for full)
> indicates a directory with files.  (^F) indcates either not a directory
> or no files.  (/^F) indicates a directory with no files.

Will this work recursively for subdirectories? A maildir directory is
never empty, it always contains 3 subdirectories. What I need to find
out is whether all those are empty.

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