Test the existance of a directory

[gitarwmn]

How do I test for the existance of a directory? Thanks Thanks everyone.

[bassplayer]

Assuming you mean in Perl, you should check into the File Test Operators, specifically -d.

[fluxion]

if (-d $dir) { ... }

[Enlil]

-d

-enlil

[muba]

..oftopic..

is -enlil a new file test operator? :p
or is nlil considered a bareword and does the code actually mean -e "nlil"?
In both cases, what will be the result of it?

[grinder]

Sometimes the best way to test for the existence of the directory is to go ahead and see if you can open it. If you want to know if it exists, you may want to look at something in it, so just go ahead and see if you can. It's the ultimate test.

#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

for my $dir( @ARGV ) {
    if( opendir( D, $dir )) {
        print "$dir: yup\n";
        closedir D;
    }
    else {
        print "$dir: nope\n";
    }
}