tag 12675 notabug thanks On 10/18/2012 10:41 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > A useful thing to be a test on the number of non-structural entries in a > directory. > > By non structural, it would work like ls -A, and not include entries > that are > part of the directory structure like "." and ".." -- with the idea of being > able to quickly determine if a directory is empty. So which do you really want - to know how many directory entries exist, or to just know if a directory is (non-)empty? The former would be a new feature, while the latter already exists as a GNU find extension. > > Maybe 'inodes' with standard +/- adjectives > > So "find . -type d -inodes 0" would find all the empty dirs. > > Unless, of course this is already in there and I've missed it... but > didn't see anything that would provide this w/o calling an external func > on each dir...which really slows things down... Sorry, but you've reached the wrong list. GNU coreutils does not maintain find(1); for that, you'd need to write to the findutils list. But while you are correct that POSIX does not provide this capability, GNU find already does what you want: find -type d -empty -- Eric Blake address@hidden +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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