What is the best way to check if a directory is empty

[HHG]

Hi, I would very much appreciate your help in this. I need to write a condition around the whole of my scripts. In that I need to check if a directory is empty before the script kicks off and does it business. The script is run in cron.

e.g. if the directory a is empty I want the rest of the script gets excuted. Otherwise an email to be sent to the user.

if directory empty
then
process the whole script
else
send an email.

Hope you can help. Many thanks in advance

 

[columb]

if [ $(ls | wc -l) -eq 0 ]
then
  process_script
else
  echo its empty | mail me@myserver
fi

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Columb Healy

 

[macd68]

find $dirname -type f?

 

[geirendre]

Maby this way?

geir@festy-fawn:~/testdir$ ls -l
totalt 0
geir@festy-fawn:~/testdir$ touch testfile.txt
geir@festy-fawn:~/testdir$ if [ -e ./* ]; then echo "It's not empty."; else echo "It's empty."; fi
It's not empty.
geir@festy-fawn:~/testdir$ rm testfile.txt
geir@festy-fawn:~/testdir$ if [ -e ./* ]; then echo "It's not empty."; else echo "It's empty."; fi
It's empty.
geir@festy-fawn:~/testdir$

HTH

 

[stefanwagner]

find /where -type d -empty -exec yourscript.sh {} \; || emailcommand.sh

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[HHG]

Thanks all for this I used columb syntax and it works fine.

Thanks for your help much appreciated.