[erlang-questions] Best way to check if a given directory is empty (or not)?

[Steve Strong]

Not a good solution if other apps are using the directory, but if it's just your app you could call file:del_dir() - if it's empty, it will return ok if not you'll get an {error,eexist} error.  No idea on the performance characteristics, but suspect it's pretty good...

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On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 07:09, Zabrane Mickael wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I'd like to know if there's a good and portable method to check if a directory is empty (or not)?
> In my case, the directory can contains huge number (more than 150K in average) of files if it is not empty.
> 
> I've tested the following working calls:
> a. file:list_dir/1
> b. filelib:wildcard/2
> 
> The problem with them is they both return a list of filenames.
> I'd like to avoid getting this list back to be able to check if it's empty or not.
> 
> Advices please?
> 
> Regards
> Zabrane
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