How to check if a folder exist in awk...

[Guest_imported]

Hi!
It's me again...

I'm writing a script in nawk that does changes to a bunch of files and then sorts them into folders depending on their contents. I'd like to check if a certain folder exists, and if not create it.
But is it possible to determine the existance of a folder from an awkscript using system() or something like that,
or do I have to call a shellscript to do this?

Thanks in advance.


- Tobias
(tobbe_snodd@hotmail.com)

 

[ElgisRamon]

Cat't you try to create the folder and ignore the errors?

 

[gregor weertman]

system( "test -d yourfolder" )


if system returns 0 the folder is there


Gregor.Weertman@mailcity.com