I needed to find a quick way to find out if a directory was empty or not. After hours (30 minutes) of google searching, I didnt find anything worth using. So I wrote my own code, which is what I should have done if I wasnt trying to find the easy way out. Enjoy! Feel free to chime in. 

$i=0;
opendir(DIR, "$someDir") or die "Cant open $someDir: $!\n";
    @files = readdir(DIR);
    foreach $file(@files) {
      unless ($file =~ /^[.][.]?\z/) {
        $i++;
      }
     }
     if ($i != 0) {
      print "There is Stuff in here!";
     } else {
      print "This Dir is Empty!";
     }
closedir(DIR);

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