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
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