Checking if a directory is empty using bash script

Checking whether a directory is empty can be acheived using an if-else construct.

It has the following syntax:

if [[ condition ]] # there must be a space between the condition and the square brackets
then
  <execute command>
else # this is optional
  <execute another command>
fi # this closes the statement

Condition for checking if empty:

-z "$(ls -A /path/to/dir/)"

So in summary this can be achieved as follows:

temp_dir = "some-path"

if [ -z "$(ls -A $temp_dir)" ]; then
   echo "$temp_dir empty"
else
    echo "Not Empty"
fi

Sources:

https://superuser.com/questions/352289/bash-scripting-test-for-empty-directory
https://devconnected.com/bash-if-else-syntax-with-examples/

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