Verification before copying.

[ranjank]

I need to verfiy whether the same directory exists in other server where i'm copying.

For E.g: If i want to copy a "a" directory which i input thru command line with $1 in other server how can i confirm whether the input which i take as $1 exists in other server.

Regards,
RK.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I do not know how you reach the other server, but for checking if a directory exist, this is the base movement :

test -d "$1" && echo "exist"
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[ -d "$1" ] && echo "exist"

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[p5wizard]

if you do a mkdir -p /path/name/of/dir on the remote server, the dir would be created if it does not already exist - the command would just silently do nothing if the dir already exists...




HTH,

p5wizard