Hi! Am 2003-10-09 1:29 +0200 schrieb Sven Luther: > Ideally, i should erase the ld.conf, verify that the directory is empty, > and then rmdir it. I have no idea how i test that a directory is empty > though.
What about rmdir /path/to/dir 2> /dev/null || echo "not empty" ? If you don't need the outcome (i. e. just make sure that its gone if it was empty), a plain rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /path/to/dir is sufficient, rmdir doesn't return an error then. Martin -- Martin Pitt home: www.piware.de eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]