On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 01:38:55PM -0500, songbird wrote:
> Reco wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 12:36:28PM -0500, songbird wrote:
> >> the directory is a mount point of a device in limbo.
> >> it is showing up as mounted but it really isn't (the
> >> device is turned off).
> > ...
> >>
> >> i just want the answer to be 0 or the number of files.
> >
> > Fuse does not work that way. If a userspace backend cannot perform its
> > function (in this case - a device is disconnected) - it's free to return
> > all kinds of error even on a simple opendir(3).
> >
> > Best you can do is to execute:
> >
> > fusermount -u /home/me/pics/camera
>
> i don't care if it is returned, i just wonder why it isn't
> redirected to /dev/null like i'm asking it to do.
Because you're redirecting stderr of a wrong process.
This one-liner should do it.
find . -type f -exec printf %.0s. {} + 2>/dev/null | wc -m
Reco
