Re: Check existence of a directory?

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does that work inside a CL program?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Rich" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: Check existence of a directory?


> 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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