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Hey I want to create a dir, if it do not exist.
What I have is this
Code:
if [ ! -d "$/usr/lib/ninja" ] && [ ! -d "$/usr/include/ninja"]; then
mkdir /usr/lib/ninja
echo "ninja library has been created in /usr/lib"
mkdir /usr/include/ninja
echo "ninja library has been created in /usr/include"
else
echo ninja code library already existing
fi
you may as well: mkdir -p /blah/blah
and you won't get an error if it already exists.
mkdir is checking for existence anyway, little point in you doing it too.
Using the -p option would be my first choice. If I were to leave the check for existence in, I would not do a compound if statement. Test each directory individually and create versus not if you still wish to test.
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