On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 04:52:31PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 01:23:05AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > > A simpler approach, without the portability concerns of -A, would be > > to remove the "." and ".." lines from the top of the listing: > > > > ls -f1 "$1" | sed '1,2d' > > > > If we're worried about -f not being sufficiently portable, then an > > even simpler approach would be to check whether the output of 'ls -a1' > > has more lines than the two expected ("." and ".."): > > > > test $(ls -a1 "$1" | wc -l) -gt 2 > > > > I think I favor this final implementation over the others. > > Perhaps even simpler: > > test "$1" = "$(find "$1")" Actually, I guess it needs to add "-print", since IIRC that is not the default on some old versions of "find". -Peff