Bash example

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/8/21 Florent Charton <traydent at gmail.com>:
> 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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I just don't understand why you need to check if the directory exists.
If it doesn't, remove it anyway. That won't hurt anybody. Just set the
right option to the rm command, so it doesn't give you an annoying
error.

Johnny Rosenberg