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Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?



    Hi Aaron :)

 * Aaron Davies <agdavi01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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:)

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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