From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 20 14:51:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kitkat.hotpop.com (kitkat.hotpop.com [204.57.55.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE2037B401 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 14:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotpop.com (unknown [204.57.55.31]) by kitkat.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 37E4B309A9 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 21:51:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hotpop.com (shiva-dhcp-101.dial.upmc.edu [128.147.34.101]) by zagnut.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E60450022; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 21:51:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 17:47:01 -0400 From: Rod Person To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash scripting help/suggestions. Message-Id: <20011020174701.7a8f156a.roddierod@hotpop.com> In-Reply-To: <20011020234430.A568@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20011020173545.6cf189ff.roddierod@hotpop.com> <20011020234430.A568@freebie.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: roddierod@hotpop.com Organization: Open Source Beef X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.8; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks. That exactly what I needed. It was Sat, 20 Oct 2001 23:44:30 +0200 and I don't really know but somebody said: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:35:45PM -0400, Rod Person wrote: > > man test(1) tells you how to check for a directory (and lots more BTW) > > mkdir -p might also interest you (see the mkdir man page) > > > 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 possible. > > > > Rod > > > > http://storm.prohosting.com/osbeef/osbeef.htm > > > > '....musical rhythms can mess with your head...' > > - T La Rock > > "It's your's" > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > ---end of quoted text--- > > -- > | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands Rod http://storm.prohosting.com/osbeef/osbeef.htm '....musical rhythms can mess with your head...' - T La Rock "It's your's" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message