Re: best way to test for empty dir?

[Antonio Macchi]

is_file()
{
    [ -f "$1" ]
}

is_file /path/to/dir/* || echo empty



test is redundant too

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this could be another way to accomplish this

empty_dir()  {
  eval test \" $1/* \" == \"" $1/* "\";
}


(excluding invisible files...)