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From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:49:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040328194921.GA6311@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E7AF602-8085-11D8-AA68-000502631FBD@louisville.edu>

    Hi Aaron :)

 * Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu> dixit:

> Is there a way to get empty directories from a glob pattern? '*(L0)' 
> finds empty files, but doesn't work for dirs. I'm looking for something 
> the equivalent of find's -empty argument, since I hate find with a 
> passion and would love to never use it again.

    There is not, AFAIK. See the mailing list archives, I asked more
or less the same a few months ago. Testing for the number of links
won't work for directories :(( The only way is to look whether the
directory has files in it, with some globbing pattern; if the
expansion is empty, then the directory is empty.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

-- 
Linux Registered User 88736
http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-28 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-28  7:00 Aaron Davies
2004-03-28 19:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-28 20:13   ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-28 20:55     ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-28 23:55       ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-29  0:54         ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-29  6:05           ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-28 19:49 ` DervishD [this message]
2004-03-29  6:03   ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-29 13:28     ` DervishD
2004-03-29 15:19       ` Danek Duvall
2004-03-29 15:57         ` DervishD
2004-03-29 23:11       ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-29 23:24         ` DervishD
2004-03-31  1:44           ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-31  8:44             ` DervishD

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