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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Determining whether given string is path or not Post 302525975 by rdcwayx on Monday 30th of May 2011 12:44:53 AM
Old 05-30-2011
Code:
[ -d "/path/a valid/path"  ] && echo "A directory" || echo  "Not a directory"

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