Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi trying to read directory name and compare if exist or not,haw can I do that
thanks

Code:

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter: "
read var 
 find . -name "$var" -type f

I THINK you are are asking for this, let me know if this is not what you mean.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter: "
read var 
 find . -name "$var" -type d | xargs ls -l

Thanks for the help,if I use your code I am getting all files in teh directory
I am trying to enter sertain directory and if exist to print message "the directory exist,and then to print the size of it

Code:

dirname="path/to/dir"
[ -d "$dirname" ] && echo "$dirname exists" && du -hs "$dirname"

Which reads " Test if '$dirname' is a directory " and "if that previous statement is true, say '$dirname exists'" and if that runs successfully "return $dirname size" I only do this if you're new to shell scripts and need an idea what this is saying. Research Unix test conditions on google. There are other tests besides ' -d ', you can check files ' -f ', check if something exists in general ' -e ', etc. " && " is the same as saying " Do this next statement if the previous statement is successful " you can use " || " to say " Do this if the previous statement is NOT successful ". Anyways hope any new people reading this get some info from it.

Combining the above posts we get:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter: "   ; read var
if [ -d "${var}" ]
then
     echo "Directory exists: ${var}"
     du -hs "${var}"
else
     echo "Directory missing: ${var}"
fi

@Corona688 and DC_Slick. I would hazard a guess that Corona688 first typed a unix Conditional Expression before DC_Slick was born and before "test" became a Shell built-in. Mind you I could be wrong.

Thank you for the help ,is there any way for the code to check if the directory + the sybdirectory exist
Thank you for the help again