Timeline for How do I check if a directory exists or not in a Bash shell script?
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| Mar 23, 2021 at 23:19 | comment | added | venimus | mkdir will also not create the full path (without a param), but the opposite would be even more dangerous, as you are not even able to revert (rm -f) the changes as you don't know which directories it created | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 10:30 | history | edited | James Brown | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2020 at 6:06 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Active reading [<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dax90QyXgI&t=17m54s> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/success#Noun>].
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 21:38 | comment | added | Chris | 👆👆👆. The 2nd one seems dangerous. Since it creates the directory, it's not even true anymore that the dir is not present. | |
| Mar 6, 2019 at 6:47 | comment | added | Shihe Zhang | The second one would create the directory, if it didn't exist at first. Then it's not idempotent. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 15:18 | history | edited | Christian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2018 at 4:32 | history | edited | yoctotutor.com | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2018 at 4:24 | history | edited | yoctotutor.com | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S May 15, 2018 at 8:54 | history | suggested | user9019088 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added file checking also
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| May 15, 2018 at 8:46 | history | edited | yoctotutor.com | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2018 at 5:36 | history | answered | yoctotutor.com | CC BY-SA 4.0 |