Bash problems?

[Tomas Larsson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:34 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Bash problems?
> 
> Ben Stringer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:03 +0200, Tomas Larsson wrote:
> >> Dear group.
> >> How do I do to, within a scrip, check if a directory I 
> empty or not.
> >> Cant find a way to do this in a simple way.
> > 
> > DIR_CONTENTS=`ls $DIR`
> > if [ "$DIR_CONTENTS" == "" ]
> > then
> >   echo "$DIR is empty"
> > else
> >   echo "$DIR contains:"
> >   echo $DIR_CONTENTS
> > fi
> 
> I'd use "ls -A $DIR" there rather than "ls $DIR" so as to 
> spot files with names starting with a dot.
> 
> Paul.
Thanks all, however for some reason 'ls $DIR' didn't work.
$(ls $DIR) did the job.

Now, I want to exlude sub-dirs in the ls command?

With best regards

Tomas Larsson
Sweden

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