What's the syntax to check if a local folder exists?

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Tue Jun 7 13:21:57 EDT 2011


folks,

to created nested level of paths, on unix machines you can do:

get shell("mkdir -p /my/multi/level/folder")

and it will create all the necessary folders for you. This works on Macs OS
X and Linux. For windows, I have no clue.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Peter Brigham MD <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure -- what you get instead of true or false is "damn right there ain't no
> damn folder!" or "of course the damn folder exists, stupid!"
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
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>
>
> On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
> > will it support double negative expletives like "ain't no damned folder"?
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > On Jun 7, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >
> >> Bob Sneidar wrote:
> >>> You can say "there is not"?? Well I'll be damned!
> >>
> >> And don't forget the most important request in the RQCC, Jeanne's
> suggestion for adding an "aint" operator:
> >>
> >> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3157>
> >>
> >> :)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Richard Gaskin
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