From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21620 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2004 20:55:31 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Mar 2004 20:55:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 14218 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2004 20:55:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7283 Received: (qmail 14180 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2004 20:55:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Mar 2004 20:55:16 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [130.225.247.86] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 28 Mar 2004 20:55:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 25741 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2004 20:55:16 -0000 Received: from wbar3.sjo1-4-11-009-147.sjo1.dsl-verizon.net (HELO candle.brasslantern.com) (4.11.9.147) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 28 Mar 2004 20:55:14 -0000 Received: (from schaefer@localhost) by candle.brasslantern.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i2SKtCV26296 for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:55:12 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: candle.brasslantern.com: schaefer set sender to schaefer@closedmail.com using -f From: Bart Schaefer Message-Id: <1040328205512.ZM26295@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:55:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: <4F9C0127-80F4-11D8-AA68-000502631FBD@louisville.edu> Comments: In reply to Aaron Davies "Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?" (Mar 28, 3:13pm) References: <4F9C0127-80F4-11D8-AA68-000502631FBD@louisville.edu> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: **** X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.7 required=6.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_NJABL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 4.7 On Mar 28, 3:13pm, Aaron Davies wrote: } Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories? } } On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 02:21 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: } } > It's not possible to tell if a directory is empty without actually } > looking for files in it. } } Thanks much. In that case, could I make this a feature request? What I meant was, the filesystem typically doesn't provide any way to discover whether a directory is empty without looking for files in it. So even if zsh implemented an "empty directory" globbing flag internally, it'd be doing effectively the same thing as the function I showed. And that must be what "find ... -empty" is doing as well.