Thursday, 22 July 2021

To check if a directory exists in a shell script

 if [ -d "$DIRECTORY" ]; then

  # Control will enter here if $DIRECTORY exists.
fi

Or to check if a directory doesn't exist:

if [ ! -d "$DIRECTORY" ]; then
  # Control will enter here if $DIRECTORY doesn't exist.
fi
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