Bash example

[Florent Charton]

Le 21/08/2009 00:42, Chris a écrit :
> Greetings,
>   
Hello,
> I would like an example bash script that checks to see if a directory
> exists. If it does, then remove it.
>   
A solution among others :
rmdir_if_exists() {
    [ $# -eq 1 ] || (echo "Need the directory name" >&2 ; exit 1)
    [ -d "$0" ] && rm -Rfv "$0"
}

Then, just :
rmdir_if_exists /tmp/tmp
A less complicated solution is rm -Rfv /tmp/tmp

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~TraydenT~