Thread: How do we verify if directory is empty?
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Old 3rd January 2012
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Code:
#!/bin/sh
cd $DIR
rm -rf * .* 2> /dev/null
Completely untested. The intent is to delete all regular and all dot files, suppressing the stderr message complaining about "." and ".." not being deleted.
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