Question

-d option is used for checking if the file exists and is a directory.

(a) True

(b) False

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I want to ask this question from Using test and [ ] to Evaluate Expressions topic in section Essential Shell Programming of Unix

Answer 1

The correct choice is (a) True

Easy explanation: If we want to check whether the file exists and is a directory we have to use the -d option. The syntax is -d filename.