Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys,
I am using simple ls command to find out whether the dir exist there or not. If dir found than remove. But the problem is I don't want the error shown on the terminal window that "dir not found" on the terminal window everytime i execute it. The code I am using is:

Code:

 
set x = `/bin/ls -1d temp | wc -l`
if ($x > 0) then
/bin/rm -rf temp
endif
 
Option 2:
I also tried
set x = `/bin/ls -1d temp | wc -l` >& /dev/null

Option 2 doesn't seem to be working at all, since still it comes up with the error message saying ls: cannot access temp: No such file or directory if temp doesn't exist although if I do echo $x the value is 0, so the logic seems to be working. How can I avoid the error message on the terminal window without changing my logic?

Thanks in advance

Redirect STDERR to /dev/null:

Code:

2>/dev/null

Or check if the directory exists first:

Code:

if [ -d temp ]; then

or simply rm -rf /temp and nothing else at all is fine. the whole point of the -f flag is to ignore non-existing directories (no error should be printed).

@neutronscott thanks did not know that also applied to the top level directory...