How to check if a directory exists within a given path

bash, if-statement, ubuntu

Solution

Duplicate question? Check if a directory exists in a shell script

if [ -d "$DIRECTORY" ]; then
    # Control will enter here if $DIRECTORY exists.
fi

The $DIRECTORY is the pathname

For your case, you can just do:

if [ -d "$fullPath" ]; then
    then back it up
    else give error
fi

Problem

I'm creating a simple script for backing up and I want to check if a directory exists in a given path like so: ``` fullPath=/usr/local/webapps/mydir if mydir exists in my $fullPath then back it up else give error fi ``` My question is how do I formulate the if statement to check if the last directory exists in the $fullPath variable? Just to clarify, for this case it would be mydir if I used /usr/local it would be local etc. Thanks in advance!

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