Re: How can I check in a bash-script wether a directory exists or not

From: cheesenhomer (kesenhei_at_de.ibm.com)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: 20 Apr 2004 09:44:28 -0700

Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in message news:<e77fl1-i0i.ln1@news.heiming.de>...
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> cheesenhomer <kesenhei@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > i need to check in a bash-script wether a directory exist or not. I've
> > tried it with the 'cd' commad and a if-statement (check the output of
> > the cd-command), but it doesn't really work. I only get an error
> > message like...
>
> if [ -d "${dir}" ]; then echo yep;fi
>
> Hint:
> man test

OK, I've tried your tips, but nothing really worked. If I use your tip
with the if-statement (slightly changed, due to errors), it executes
the echo ok also for directory which don't exists. So it looks very
strange. If I use 'if [ -d $"{dir}" ];' I got the error "bad
substitution".

So what's going on there???!?

Cheesenhomer

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