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Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?

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From: Aaron Davies <agdavi01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: DervishD <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:03:25 -0500
Cc: Aaron Davies <agdavi01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20040328194921.GA6311@DervishD>
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On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 02:49 PM, DervishD wrote:

    Hi Aaron :)

 * Aaron Davies <agdavi01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 forsomething

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, adirectory will always have two hard links, itself and it's "." pointer.Adding any subdirectories or files to it seems to increase the numberof links it has. So wouldn't *(/l2) find empty directories? Or is thishard-link policy not true on all systems?

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