Re: Check existence of a directory?

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Adam Lang wrote:

> I have a CL program that uses CHKDLO to determine the existence of a folder.
> We are changing things around to use directories.  What would the equivalent
> command be to check for the existence of a directory?  I assume we can't use
> wrklnk, because that will actually display the screen.  Also, what would the
> correct msgid be?

Lots of people have responded to this one.  Surprisingly, none have
suggested what I think is the easiest solution by far.  With QSH:

if [ -d /the/directory/name ] ; then
echo "the directory exists"
fi

Really, QSH is awesome.

James Rich

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