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

[Zabrane Mickael]

Awesome Wes.

On my OSX 10.7.3:  68 bytes
On Linux 32/64 bits Fedora: 4096 bytes

On Mar 13, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Wes James wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Zabrane Mickael <zabrane3@REDACTED> 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.
> 
> Another thing to look at.  When I create an empty folder on my mac (I
> tested this with 2 folders and some subfolders), they seem to always
> have a size of 68 bytes when first created (empty).
> 
> I wrote this to work on that idea:
> 
> -module(test).
> 
> -include_lib("kernel/include/file.hrl").
> 
> -define(DARWIN_EMPTY_FOLDER_SIZE,68).
> 
> -export([start/0]).
> 
> start()->
>    is_dir_empty("blah").
> 
> is_dir_empty(Dir) ->
>    {ok, FileInfo} = file:read_file_info(Dir),
>    case FileInfo#file_info.size of
> 	 ?DARWIN_EMPTY_FOLDER_SIZE -> empty;
> 	_ -> notempty
>    end.
> 
> -wes

Regards,
Zabrane