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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with Shell Script displaying Directories Post 302309122 by cjnd1988 on Tuesday 21st of April 2009 06:45:44 AM
Old 04-21-2009
how to test if a directory or not?
I have got the following segment of code. It is going through each file/directory in the present working directory and asking whether it should descend into the directory. If deciding to descend it recalls the shell script with the new directory as a parameter. This is probably not the most efficient way of doing/writing this code but it seems to work. What i want to do is though, i want to only execute this code if it is a directory not if its a file. How do i test for if its a directory before descending into the code.
Code:
echo "The present working directory is: $WORKDIR "
cd $WORKDIR

for directory in *
do
    (I am thinking the test will go in here to test the value of $directory)
    echo "Found directory $directory; do you want to Descend, List or Ignore:"
    read answer
    case $answer in
    "D") WORKDIR=$WORKDIR/$directory
           echo $WORKDIR
           exec ./tryc $WORKDIR;;
     "L") (this will call a function to list the contents of the directory);;
     "I") echo "The directory was ignored" ;;
     esac
done

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NAME

       create directory - Creates a directory

SYNOPSIS

       cdscp create directory directory-name [clearinghouse clearinghouse-name]

ARGUMENTS

       The full name of the directory The name of the clearinghouse in which you create the directory.

DESCRIPTION

       The  create  directory  command	creates a directory with the name that you specify. If you do not specify a clearinghouse, CDS creates the
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NOTES

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