GNU bug report logs - #12675
find RFE test verb "-inodes"

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From: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: find RFE test verb "-inodes"
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:41:17 -0700

A useful thing to be a test on the number of non-structural entries in a 
directory.

By non structural, it would work like ls -A, and not include entries 
that are
part of the directory structure like "." and ".." -- with the idea of being
able to quickly determine if a directory is empty.

Maybe 'inodes' with standard +/- adjectives

So "find . -type d -inodes 0" would find all the empty dirs.

Unless, of course this is already in there and I've missed it... but
didn't see anything that would provide this w/o calling an external func
on each dir...which really slows things down...

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