NEWBIE: If and Find in shell script - Shell Programming and Scripting

meskue · #1 06-29-2006

Basically I have a shell script and i want to search the computer for a folder and if that folder exists i want to take some action. Not sure exactly how to do this most efficiently.

Not very experienced....any help would be appreciated.

vino · #2 06-29-2006

Code:

found=$(find / -type d -name "folder.name" 2> /dev/null)
if [ ! -z $found ] ; then
  # your action
fi ;

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