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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Creating Directory Post 302421975 by namishtiwari on Monday 17th of May 2010 07:47:00 AM
Old 05-17-2010
Code:
dir="/home/somedirectory"
if [ -d $dir ]
then
echo "The directory $dir exists"
cp pathoffiletocopy .
else 
mkdir -p $dir
cd $dir
cp pathoffiletocopy .
fi

try somethink like this. I did not test it but logic should be like this.

Thanks

Last edited by namishtiwari; 05-17-2010 at 08:58 AM..
 

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