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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting testing if a file is a directory Post 302324434 by cfajohnson on Wednesday 10th of June 2009 04:48:40 PM
Old 06-10-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by and77
i have written this simple script called isdir.sh

When you post code, please wrap it in [code] tags.
Quote:
Code:
#! /bin/bash 
dir=$1
_ls=`ls $dir`
for file in $_ls


That will fail if any filenames contain spaces. Use:

Code:
for file in "$dir"/*

Quote:
Code:
do
    if [ -d "$file" ]
    then
        echo "D $file"
    fi
done

the output is not right.
for example

$ ./isdir.sh src

Put scripts in a central location, e.g., $HOME/bin, and add that to your PATH.
Quote:
***no output***

but i have in ~/src some directories

Are you in ~ when you issue that command?

If not, use the full path to the directory:

Code:
./isdir.sh ~/src

 

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