empty-dir

empty-dir

Check if a directory is empty.

Note that directories with .DS_Store on mac are considered empty.

Example

const emptyDir = require('empty-dir');

emptyDir('./', function (err, result) {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err);
  } else {
    console.log('Directory is empty:', result);
  }
});

var result = emptyDir.sync('./test/empty');
console.log('Directory is empty:', result);

Filter function

Both async and sync take a filter function as the second argument.

(This gives you the ability to eliminate files like .DS_Store on mac, or Thumbs.db on windows from causing the result to be "not empty" (.DS_Store is already filtered by default).)

const emptyDir = require('empty-dir');

function filter(filepath) {
  return !/Thumbs\.db$/i.test(filepath);
}

emptyDir('./', filter, function (err, result) {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err);
  } else {
    console.log('Directory is empty:', result);
  }
});

var result = emptyDir.sync('./test/empty', filter);
console.log('Directory is empty:', result);

Release History

• 2014-05-08 - v0.1.0 - initial release
• 2016-02-07 - v0.2.0 - add filter support