CheckIfADirectoryExists

This page was last updated on April 4, 2012.

Use this Bash script to check if a directory exists, let you know if it exists, and create it if it doesn’t:

#!/bin/bash

echo "Checking for mystuff directory";
if [ -d $HOME/mystuff ];
	then
		echo "Directory exists";
else
	mkdir $HOME/mystuff;
	echo "Created $HOME/mystuff directory";
fi;

Obligatory Happy Ending

And they all lived happily ever after. The end.