From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22617 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2004 08:46:03 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 Mar 2004 08:46:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 22427 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 2004 08:45:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7305 Received: (qmail 22415 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2004 08:45:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Mar 2004 08:45:31 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [130.225.247.86] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 31 Mar 2004 8:45:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 27009 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2004 08:45:31 -0000 Received: from madrid10.amenworld.com (62.193.203.32) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 31 Mar 2004 08:45:21 -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 i2V8jId14640; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:45:18 +0200 Received: from raul@pleyades.net by DervishD.pleyades.net with local (Exim MTA 2.05) id <1B8bKP-0004Pz-00>; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:44:05 +0200 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:44:05 +0200 From: DervishD To: Aaron Davies Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories? Message-ID: <20040331084405.GC10079@DervishD> Mail-Followup-To: Aaron Davies , zsh-users@sunsite.dk References: <20040329232435.GA8304@DervishD> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: 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: > >>I'm on OS X, so it may be a peculiarity of HFS+. > > Do you mean you can know if a dir is empty or not in OS X looking > >for the number of st_nlinks it has? I must confess I don't know a > >workd about HFS+ O:) > On cursory examination, it would appear so. I haven't done any serious > testing (or looked at any docs), but the number of links listed in ls > -l for a directory seems to equal the number of files in it plus two. Well, that seems an exception. I'll try to search the Internet for seeing current practice. The fact that 'find' uses directory contents and not the number of links is interesting, though. Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/