Shell Programming and Scripting

     24 #Check if the required directories are exists
     25 dirExists() {
     26
     27 if [ ! -d $SWDIR && ! -d $SWDIR/eaijava && ! -d $ipetoolsdir && ! -d $hawkdir ]
     28 then
     29 echo "required directories does not exists.. exiting.."
     30 exit
     31
     32 else
     33 echo "directories are exists.."
     34
     35 fi

./backup-1.sh[27]: [: ']' missing

function check_dirs1
{
        # && means 'if the first is okay, run the second'.  So if any of these don't exist,
        # the chain will stop and the function will return nonzero.
        [ -d dir1 ] && [ -d dir2 ] && [ -d dir3 ]
}

function check_dirs2
{
        # -a instead of && for [ ]
        [ -d dir1 -a -d dir2 -a -d dir3 ]
}

function check_dirs3
{
        # for bash/ksh, which has double-brackets [[ ]]
        [[ -d dir1 && -d dir2 && -d dir3 ]]
}

# If your expression is very large, you can break it into parts
function check_dirs4
{
        # || means, 'if the first thing doesn't succeed, run the second'.
        # So if dir1 doesn't exist, the function will return immediately
        # with a nonzero value.
        [ -d dir1 ] || return 1
        [ -d dir2 ] || return 1
        [ -d dir3 ] || return 1
        # once you're sure they all exist, return okay
        return 0
}

if ! check_dirs1
then
        echo "Required files not found in dirs1"
fi

if ! check_dirs2
then
        echo "Required files not found in dirs2"
fi

if ! check_dirs3
then
        echo "Required files not found in dirs3"
fi

if ! check_dirs4
then
        echo "Required files not found in dirs4"
fi