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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting File checking Post 302550298 by itkamaraj on Thursday 25th of August 2011 08:44:44 AM
Old 08-25-2011
Code:
count=$(find ${dir} -type f | wc -l)

if the $count value is zero, then directory is empty, otherwise its having some file
 

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