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Re: quick and dirty test for empty directory

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: quick and dirty test for empty directory
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:23:05 +0100
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/28396>
In-reply-to: <620799bc-8224-7cf3-b1c5-2ae5467f0a98@eastlink.ca>
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 5:18 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Best advice googling for such a test is this:
>
>                  [ -d "$dir" ] && [ -n "$(ls -A  $dir)" ]   # If true,
> dir isn't empty.

Try this:

  [[ -n $dir(#qNF) ]] && print -r -- "$dir is a non-empty directory"

This requires extended_glob.

Roman.

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