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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting check the directory exist Post 76986 by ust on Saturday 2nd of July 2005 01:15:40 AM
Old 07-02-2005
check the directory exist
I have the below script to check whether directory is exist or not , now I sure the directory /abc NOT exist , but when run the script , it still pop the result is "the directory exist" , could suggest what is wrong ? thx

ll -d /abc > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
echo "the directory exist !!"

else
echo "the directory not exist !!"
fi
 

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