From: Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:44:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F190FDEE-82B4-11D8-913F-000502631FBD@louisville.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040329232435.GA8304@DervishD>
On Monday, March 29, 2004, at 06:24 PM, DervishD wrote:
> Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu> dixit:
>
>>> I have not tested in many systems, but Linux don't do it, and
>>> I've not found any standard that require files to be links on the
>>> directory. If you find any, please tell me to report the current
>>> behaviour as a bug to Linux kernel developers, but looking at
>>> findutils sources (that being GNU are intended to be very portable),
>>> you can see the following:
>> 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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-31 1:45 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
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 [this message]
2004-03-31 8:44 ` DervishD
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