Checking if directory in HDFS is empty or not

Question

Is there any command in HDFS to check whether a directory is empty or not

Answer 1

count:

hdfs dfs -count /path
           1            0                  0 /path

The output columns are: DIR_COUNT, FILE_COUNT, CONTENT_SIZE, PATHNAME

du:

hdfs dfs -du -s /path
0  /path

If there are 0 byte files or empty directories, the result would still be 0.