From: Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu>
To: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
Cc: Aaron Davies <agdavi01@netmail.louisville.edu>, zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:03:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA7477A0-8146-11D8-913F-000502631FBD@louisville.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040328194921.GA6311@DervishD>
On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 02:49 PM, DervishD wrote:
> 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 :((
Actually, I'm not sure of that. According to the info page for find, a
directory will always have two hard links, itself and it's "." pointer.
Adding any subdirectories or files to it seems to increase the number
of links it has. So wouldn't *(/l2) find empty directories? Or is this
hard-link policy not true on all systems?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-29 6:04 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
2004-03-29 6:03 ` Aaron Davies [this message]
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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