Check if a directory exist?

[Jérôme Lacoste <je...@smartcardsystem.com>]

How can I check if a directory exists using Ant?

Jerome

Re: Check if a directory exist?

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

Jirtme Lacoste <je...@smartcardsystem.com> wrote:

> How can I check if a directory exists using Ant?

In Ant 1.3 <available> will check for files and directories - in
1.4alpha there is a new type attribute that can be used to only check
for files/directories.

Stefan

RE: Check if a directory exist?

[Jérôme Lacoste <je...@smartcardsystem.com>]

Thanks.

I had seen the available Task, but didn't know a file could be a directory.
Perhaps the definition of what is a file or not should be better defined in
the documentation. In the Java world it is OK, but for some people it might
not be that obvious.

Jerome

Re: Check if a directory exist?

[Erik Hatcher <er...@earthlink.net>]

<available file="c:/dir_name" property="dir.exists"/>

will set a property (to "true", or not) depending on whether the directory
specified in the 'file' attribute of the <available> task is present.

    Erik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jérôme Lacoste" <je...@smartcardsystem.com>
To: "Ant User" <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:41 AM
Subject: Check if a directory exist?


> How can I check if a directory exists using Ant?
>
> Jerome