Bash example

[Chris]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:52:48 +0200
Vincent Arnoux <vincent.arnoux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 00:48, Chris<racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
> >> I would like an example bash script that checks to see if a
> >> directory exists. If it does, then remove it.
> > Actually, if many dirs exist, remove em all.
> 
> Just remove them, if they don't exist, no error will be raised:
> #! /bin/bash
> 
> rm -fr mydir1 mydir2
> 

Hmmm - that seems to work. I was toying with:

[ -a directoryname ] || echo "not there"

to see if it might be workable.

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Best regards,

Chris

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