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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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  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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