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

Miles Fidelman mfidelman@REDACTED
Tue Mar 13 16:57:22 CET 2012


um...

given an empty directory:

7> file:list_dir("/Users/mfidelman/empty") == {ok,[]}.
true

given a non-empty directory:
8> file:list_dir("/Users/mfidelman") == {ok,[]}.
false

note:
file:list_dir seems to do the right thing with invisible files - with an 
invisible file in ../empty
9> file:list_dir("/Users/mfidelman/empty") == {ok,[]}.
false
10> file:list_dir("/Users/mfidelman/empty").
{ok,[".foo"]}


Miles Fidelman

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