Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?

[Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu>]

On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 03:55 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> 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.

Alright then. It'd still be a nice thing to have in zsh. Is it a policy 
that globbing be limited to things the filesystem can tell you directly?
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