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Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.0 Content-language: en-US To: Zsh Users From: Ray Andrews Subject: quick and dirty test for empty directory Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Seq: 28395 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Best advice googling for such a test is this:                 [ -d "$dir" ] && [ -n "$(ls -A  $dir)" ]   # If true, dir isn't empty. ... but experimenting: 2 /media/sdb 0 $ [ /media/sdb/3/* ] && echo file found 2 /media/sdb 0 $ [ /media/sdb/2/* ] && echo file found file found ... correct result. I does have a certain logic to it.  If there's no expansion then the test fails.  Dare I use it or is this bound to crash and burn somehow or other?  Anyway I can't believe a call to 'ls' is really needed.