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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting check the directory exist Post 77097 by mbb on Monday 4th of July 2005 09:59:17 AM
Old 07-04-2005
FYI ust:

if [ -d $dir ]
then
...
fi

is actually using the 'test' command. To find out what you can do with the test command then type: 'man test'

You may also write the above as:

if test -d $dir
then
...
fi

or even use the test command on the comand line thus:

>test -d $dir
>echo $?

Also I would recommend shell variables to be quoted in this context:

if [ -d "$dir" ] ...

to avoid any command line errors with the test command!

i.e. if $dir were emtpy and you did if [ -d $dir ], then you would really be running: 'test -d' and the test command would complain.

Hope this helps.

MBB
 

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Test::InDistDir(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      Test::InDistDir(3pm)

NAME

       Test::InDistDir - test environment setup for development with IDE

VERSION

       version 1.112071

SYNOPSIS

	   use Test::More;
	   use Test::InDistDir;

	   # when this is run from inside t/ with a default @INC, it will now be in the
	   # dist dir and include ./lib in @INC

DESCRIPTION

       This module helps run test scripts in IDEs like Komodo.

       When running test scripts in an IDE i have to set up a project file defining the dist dir to run tests in and a lib dir to load additional
       modules from. Often I didn't feel like doing that, especially when i only wanted to do a small patch to a dist. In those cases i added a
       BEGIN block to mangle the environment for me.

       This module basically is that BEGIN block. It automatically moves up one directory when it cannot see the test script in "t/$scriptname"
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SUPPORT

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   Source Code
       This is open source software.  The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license.

       https://github.com/wchristian/Test-InDistDir <https://github.com/wchristian/Test-InDistDir>

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AUTHOR

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COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is Copyright (c) 2011 by Christian Walde.

       This is free software, licensed under:

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