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# 1  
Old 12-16-2010
How to exclude the empty directories
Hi.,

I have a script, in which I am processing a files present in the directory types.

HTML Code:
ls -lrt | grep ^d | grep Dir_type | awk -f '{print $9}' |\

while read dir_name; do

#operations

done
where Dir_type is the pattern in which directories get created. How to filter out empty directories in the above code.

Thanks.,
# 2  
Old 12-16-2010
Hi hope this will help you..


Code:
for dir in $(ls)
do
    if [ -d $dir -a "$(ls -A $dir )" ]
    then
        echo $dir
    fi
done

# 3  
Old 12-16-2010
Check the poast https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...ing-empty.html
Code:
ls -l * | awk '/total 0/{print last}{last=$0}'

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