Easy one...

[TheJuiceman]

Hi everyone,

Easy one for ya. How is the best way to have a script verify that something exists (like a directory, etc) before executing a set of commands? Thanks

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi Bobby,

If it is a thing like link, file, directory, then you can test it with '-a'. If you want to be more specific like if the thing is a symbolic link (-h), or a directory (-d), use that specific option. 'man ksh'.

#!/usr/bin/ksh

myfunction()
{
your_commands
}

if [ -a /somedirectory ]
then
myfunction
else
echo "/somedirectory is missing"
fi

-Sri

[TheJuiceman]

Excellent!!! Thanks Sri!!! Told you it was easy. Just didn't know the easiest way to do it.