> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://trizen.gitbook.io/sidef-lang/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://trizen.gitbook.io/sidef-lang/programming_tasks/e/empty_directory.md).

# Empty directory

Built-in method:

```ruby
Dir('/my/dir').is_empty;    # true, false or nil
```

User-defined function:

```ruby
func is_empty(dir) {
    dir.open(\var dir_h) || return nil;
    dir_h.each { |file|
        file ~~ ['.', '..'] && next;
        return false;
    };
    return true;
};
```