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JaydenDev

Member

Registered: 2022-07-11

Posts: 172

I'm writing a simple program to run a script within a chroot however:

The following if statement checks if the file exists!

# script checks
if [[ -d $1 ]]
then
    echo "Script $1 exists!"
else
    echo "Script $1 does not exist!"
fi

However, regardless if the file exists. It says it exists, no matter what. I've always found variable and file checks in if statements to rarely work.

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: I'm writing a simple program to run a script within a chroot however:

First -d tests whether the file exists and is a directory; is that what you really want?

Second, I'd wager properly quoting around $1 will solve your perceived problem.  To see why run the following:

if [[ -d ]]; then
   echo first
fi
if [[ -d "" ]]; then
   echo second
fi

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