Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

This is probably very basic but I couldn't find an answer looking around.

In a Linux script how to get the result of an operation? I want to create a folder if it does not exist.
That I found I can do:
Now if the folder was created how can I get a confirmation? A true or false result from the mkdir. I want to log the operations that the script will be doing. Or a result from the test operation.

Thanks.

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Ok I think I got it now.

$? will contain 0 or 1 depeding on the result.

I wonder if that is the best way though.

you can simply try this

Code:

if [ -e folder_name ] ; then 
if [ -f folder_name ] ; then echo "is a file"
elif [ -d folder_name ] ; then echo "is a direc"
else echo "is not file/dir"; fi
else echo "folder_name is not exist"; fi