From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13476 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2004 20:08:58 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Mar 2004 20:08:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 7645 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2004 20:08:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7279 Received: (qmail 7604 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2004 20:08:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Mar 2004 20:08:45 -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 20:8:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 7858 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2004 20:08:45 -0000 Received: from madrid10.amenworld.com (62.193.203.32) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 28 Mar 2004 20:08:43 -0000 Received: from DervishD.pleyades.net (212.Red-80-35-44.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.35.44.212]) by madrid10.amenworld.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i2SK8bK20250; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:08:38 +0200 Received: from raul@pleyades.net by DervishD.pleyades.net with local (Exim MTA 2.05) id <1B7gHZ-0001dz-00>; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:49:21 +0200 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:49:21 +0200 From: DervishD To: Aaron Davies Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories? Message-ID: <20040328194921.GA6311@DervishD> Mail-Followup-To: Aaron Davies , zsh-users@sunsite.dk References: <9E7AF602-8085-11D8-AA68-000502631FBD@louisville.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <9E7AF602-8085-11D8-AA68-000502631FBD@louisville.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: Pleyades X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 required=6.0 tests=MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 1.1 Hi Aaron :) * Aaron Davies 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/