Directory Exist or not

[Karthick K S]

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]

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

-Arun

[Pete Randall]

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


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

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

See the manpages for 'test'.

Regards!

...JRF...