[Coco] OS9 Script Error Handling or File Testing ?

[Rick Ulland]

shell 2.1 does what you want

if *test* then *statements* else *statements* endif

where test is
-y           one char from stderr y=TRUE n=FALSE
-f path   true if file exists
-r path   true if file exists readable
-w path   true if file exists writeable
-e path   true if file exists and is execable
-d path   true if file exists and is a directory

Luck!

-ricku
CoNect


On 6/27/20 10:58 AM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
>
>  I want to make a script that will create some directorys and
>  then do other things in those directorys. The problem is that
>  maybe these directorys already exist causing the script to
>  end prematurely with ERROR 218.
>
>  I am running shell_21.
>
>  Is there any way to tell the script just ignore errors and go to
>  the next instruction anyway or is there a command or utility to
>  test for the existence of a directory and allowing for conditional
>  execution.
>
>  Charlie
>