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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check if folder exist using case Post 302879049 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 10th of December 2013 08:46:20 AM
Old 12-10-2013
What is the range of the variable stuff?

Were you thinking:-
Code:
location=/home/myhome/dir

for stuff in *
do 
   if [ -d $stuff ]
   then
      case $stuff in
           $location/folder1)
              #do something here
              ;;
           $location/folder2)
             #do something here
             ;;
          $location/folder3)
             #do something here
             ;;
          $location/folder4)
             #do something here
             ;;
         $location/folder5)
             #do something here
             ;;
         *)
             #Do something for any other value that is a directory
             ;;
      esac
   else
      # Do something for an item that is not a directory
   fi
done



Have I missed the point?

Of course, this will not work with files/directories starting with a full-stop, e.g. .profile




I hope that this helps
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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