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Old 01-22-2006
Question how to check for a directory
Hi,

what is the command to in unix shell to find whether a particular direcory is existing or not ?

example: i am now in ~/scripts directory and want to find if a direcory called 'log' exists or not from a shell scripts.

can somebody please help.

thanks,
sateesh
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Old 01-22-2006
Depends on the language. In ksh,
if [[ -d log ]] ; then
echo log is a directory
fi
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Old 02-14-2006
ls -ld directory_name Smilie

directory_name can be the name of the directory you're looking for, "." or blank. (probably some other stuff to, but this should suffice) Smilie
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Old 02-14-2006
ls -ld <name of file> is probably the quickest way.

in perderabo's method would work too if you into scrpiting stuff... or if you want the same thing in a one-liner:
[[ -d log ]] && print 'exists' || print 'doesn't exist'

Smilie
 
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