Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?

[Aaron Davies <agdavi01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 07:54 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Mar 28,  6:55pm, Aaron Davies wrote:
> }
> } > So even if zsh implemented an "empty directory" globbing flag
> } > internally, it'd be doing effectively the same thing as the 
> function
> } > I showed.
> }
> } Alright then. It'd still be a nice thing to have in zsh. Is it a 
> policy
> } that globbing be limited to things the filesystem can tell you 
> directly?
>
> I wouldn't say its "a policy", but so far it is a truism, AFAIK.

Well, it might not be a policy either, but it seems to me that a worthy 
goal (and one nearly reached) for zsh's globbing system would be to 
completely obsolete find. On cursory examination, finding empty 
directories seems to be the only thing missing. Is there any particular 
reason it shouldn't be added?
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