topic Re: Directory Exist or not in Operating System - Linux

Directory Exist or not

Karthick K S — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:38:12 GMT

how to check if directory exist or not

for eg: /home/example/test/

i want to check test directory exist in /home/example/ if not eror wil be come

Arunvijai_4 — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:41:04 GMT

Why don't you use
# ls -ld /home/example/test/
/home/example/test/ not found

-Arun

Pete Randall — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:46:57 GMT

if [ `ls -ld /dirname | wc -l` -ne 1 ]
then
echo "/dirname does not exist"
fi

Pete

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:51:04 GMT

Hi:

# [ -d /home/example ] && echo "Directory exists" || echo "No Directory"

See the manpages for 'test'.

Regards!

...JRF...