on Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Rod Person wrote:
> I'm creating a bash script and I need to know if a directory exists
> and if it doesn't create it. So far the only why I can see to
> determine if a directory exists is to try to cd to it and if it
> doesn't exists trap the error. Is there a better way or a function
> that I am missing? If not how do you trap a error in bash, if at all
if [ -d $dir ]; then <whatever>;
else mkdir $dir;
fi
> possible.
>
> Rod
>
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