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+#! /bin/bash
+#
+#Derived from:
+#
+#From: damercer@mmm.com (Dan Mercer)
+#Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.sys.sun.admin
+#Subject: Re: Command to find out if a directory is empty
+#Date: 17 Aug 2000 14:35:56 GMT
+#Message-ID: <8ngt8c$fmr$1@magnum.mmm.com>
+
+# usage: emptydir [dirname] ;  default dirname is "."
+
+emptydir()
+{
+	typeset file dir=${1:-.}
+	[[ -d $dir ]] || {
+		echo "$FUNCNAME: $dir is not a directory" >&2
+		return 2
+	}
+	for file in $dir/.* $dir/*
+	do
+		case ${file#$dir/} in
+		.|..) ;;
+		\*) [[ -e $file ]];let $?;return;;
+		*) return 1;;
+		esac
+	done
+}