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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How do I tell if a directory is empty? Post 302272397 by cfajohnson on Tuesday 30th of December 2008 01:24:10 PM
Old 12-30-2008
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Originally Posted by Panos1962
I think that you found a good solution to your problem. But there is a small bug: ls must be called wirth -A option.

The -A option to ls is not standard.
 

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NAME
man - macros to typeset manual SYNOPSIS
nroff -man file ... troff -man file ... DESCRIPTION
These macros are used to lay out pages of this manual. A skeleton page may be found in the file /usr/man/man0/xx. Any text argument t may be zero to six words. Quotes may be used to include blanks in a `word'. If text is empty, the special treatment is applied to the next input line with text to be printed. In this way .I may be used to italicize a whole line, or .SM followed by .B to make small bold letters. A prevailing indent distance is remembered between successive indented paragraphs, and is reset to default value upon reaching a non- indented paragraph. Default units for indents i are ens. Type font and size are reset to default values before each paragraph, and after processing font and size setting macros. These strings are predefined by -man: *R `(Reg)', trademark symbol in troff. *S Change to default type size. FILES
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troff(1), man(1) BUGS
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