Shell Programming and Scripting

Originally Posted by pamu

Give dir_name as path of the directory you want to check...

Code:

if [[ -d $dir_name ]] 
then 
#do what you want here..
echo "Pass"
fi

Here Documents
This type of redirection instructs the shell to read input from the current source until a line containing only delimiter (with no trailing blanks) is seen. All of the lines read up to that point are then used as the standard input for a command.

The format of here-documents is:

<<[-]word
here-document
delimiter

No parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, or pathname expansion is performed on word. If any characters in word are quoted, the delimiter is the result of quote removal on word, and the lines in the here-document are not expanded. If word is unquoted, all lines of the here-document are subjected to parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion. In the latter case, the character sequence \<newline> is ignored, and \ must be used to quote the characters \, $, and `.

Originally Posted by methyl

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(Deleted code suggestion because I fell into the same trap as other posters. The Directory concerned is on a remote server and not visible to basic unix commands.)

Afterthought.
Could do this in two runs of smbclient.
1) Just issue a cd and check what happens
2) If successful, run the full script (obviously repeating the cd but knowing that it will work).