On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:43:26 -0400 Joey Hess wrote:
> I think that by generalising beyond dirempty to include exists, you're
> getting closer to a generic unix tool.
>
> I worry though that the tool might be test(1). These seem like fairly
> good candidates to add to test, especially dirempty.
>
>
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:31:35 +0200 Erich Schubert wrote:
> Package: moreutils
> Version: 0.16
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
> Testing a directory to be empty in bash is hackish, see
>
http://wooledge.org/mywiki/BashFaq#head-6ec77504553115e8518271d0d319e27148634f19
>
> The cleanest way probably is
>
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:20:02 +0200 Erich Schubert wrote:
> Hi Joey,
> > Hmm, and dirempty is just ! exists foo/* && ! exists foo/.* , right?
>
> Maybe "exists -d foo" would be nicer for this.
> In many applications, "exists 'foo/*'" would do the job okay enough (if
> you don't plan to rm the direc
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:59:51 +0200 Erich Schubert wrote:
> Hi,
> > I worry though that the tool might be test(1). These seem like fairly
> > good candidates to add to test, especially dirempty.
>
> Definitely test should have had this functionality.
> However people will expect test to behave the
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:45:27 -0400 Joey Hess wrote:
> Erich Schubert wrote:
> > A minute ago I didn't need "dirempty", but "exists 'foo/*.bar'"
> > test -e "foo" works fine if you have the filename. If you have wildcards
> > it gets a bit more complicated. IMHO it would be good to have a
> > conven
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:55:33 +0200 Erich Schubert wrote:
> Hi,
> A minute ago I didn't need "dirempty", but "exists 'foo/*.bar'"
> test -e "foo" works fine if you have the filename. If you have wildcards
> it gets a bit more complicated. IMHO it would be good to have a
> convenience command for th
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