Bash problems?

[Paul Howarth]

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.