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Starting with a path to some directory, determine whether the directory is empty.
Starting with a path to some directory, determine whether the directory is empty.


An empty directory contains no files nor subdirectories. With [[Unix]] or [[Windows]] systems, every directory contains and entry for “<code>.</code>” and almost every directory contains “<code>..</code>” (except for a root directory); an empty directory contains no other entries.
An empty directory contains no files nor subdirectories. With [[Unix]] or [[Windows]] systems, every directory contains an entry for “<code>.</code>” and almost every directory contains “<code>..</code>” (except for a root directory); an empty directory contains no other entries.


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