Check if a directory exists?

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Re: Check if a directory exists? (boo) by boo_radley (Parson) on Nov 05, 2001 at 21:55 UTC
yes. I believe that -d is the test you want.	[reply]
Re: Check if a directory exists? by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Nov 05, 2001 at 21:54 UTC
Please review the basic documentation that accompanies Perl. Notably, the perlfunc document explains what the _X function does. One of its forms tests to see if something is a directory, which should be what you need. I also highly recommend the introductory book Learning Perl.	[reply]
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Re: Check if a directory exists? by msemich (Novice) on Nov 05, 2001 at 23:25 UTC
Pretty much you should just look at a directory as any other file....its contents just happen to point to another i-node in the system. As such, you can use all of the general file existential operators on a directory or file interchangeably. -d -r -x and all the rest.	[reply]