Bash - check if directory exists

In this article, we would like to show you how to check if directory exists in Bash.

Quick solution:

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#!/bin/bash

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if [ -d "path/to/directory" ]

then

  echo "directory exists."

fi

Hint:

If you want to check if directory doesn't exist, go to this article.

In this example, we create a script into which we pass a path to directory (test_directory in Usage example) as an argument from bash console.

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#!/bin/bash

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DIRECTORY="$1"

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if [ -d "$DIRECTORY" ]; then

    echo "$DIRECTORY exists."

else 

    echo "$DIRECTORY does not exist."

fi

Run in command line:

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./script.sh test_directory

Note:

[ -d "path/to/directory" ] is equivalent to test -d "/path/to/directory".

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