Bash problems?

[Ben Stringer]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:03 +0200, Tomas Larsson wrote:
> Dear group.
> How do I do to, within a scrip, check if a directory I empty or not.
> Cant find a way to do this in a simple way.

DIR_CONTENTS=`ls $DIR`
if [ "$DIR_CONTENTS" == "" ]
then
  echo "$DIR is empty"
else
  echo "$DIR contains:"
  echo $DIR_CONTENTS
fi

Cheers, Ben

> 
> With best regards
> 
> Tomas Larsson
> Sweden
> 
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