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

[Zabrane Mickael]

Yep. Any other advices/hints?

Regards,
Zabrane

On Mar 13, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Steve Strong wrote:

> Yeah, if there are other processes (erlang or os) then that would be a problem :) - obviously easy to recreate the directory if it did get deleted but you would have that time when it wasn't there.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 13 Mar 2012, at 08:49, Zabrane Mickael <zabrane3@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>> I already tried the file:del_dir/1 trick.
>> 
>> The only downside is when this directory is really empty ... then it will be deleted.
>> My app will not work anymore as the existence of the directory is mandatory.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Zabrane
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:41 AM, Steve Strong wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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>>> Steve Strong
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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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