Re: How to tell if a Directory is Empty

You can grep the list of files for anything other than '.' and '..', and since any results from grep will equal true:

opendir my $dir, $dirname or die $!;
if( grep ! /^\.\.?$/, readdir $dir ){
  print 'stuff in here';
}
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Re^2: How to tell if a Directory is Empty by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Oct 29, 2011 at 02:49 UTC
You are using the `$` anchor instead of the `\z` anchor which means that the directory will be considered empty if there is a valid file named `".\n"` or `"..\n"`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]