Re: pkgsrc littering the home directory

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:56:31 +0100
    From:        Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20080205095631.22751dc1.tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>

  | This is the solution I'll go with (large number of files are not
  | expected):

I'd have thought awk a little heavyweight, compared to sed,
but if you're going to use it, then:

  | ls -a foo | \
  | awk '{if (!($0=="." || $0=="..")) cnt++} END {print cnt?1:0}'

why not:

        awk '{ if ($0 != "." && $0 != "..") {X=1; exit}} END {print X + 0}'

which also (when piped output from ls -a of course) shuts down
quickly (as soon as it finds a file, other than . or ..).

kre