Re: [ -d (#i)Temp ]

["S. Cowles" <scowles@xxxxxxxxx>]

one solution:

[[ -d ${:-"$( echo (#i)Tmp )"} ]] && echo "it's a directory" || echo no such dir

notes:
1)  single brackets are bash / sh (more overhead).  double brackets are the zsh builtin.
2)  quoting on the return message.

On Fri, 10 Apr 2026, Ray Andrews wrote:
> From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ -d (#i)Temp ]
> Is it possible to do something like this:?
>  [ -d (#i)Temp ] && echo 'it's a directory'
> ... that doesn't work, but you get the idea: I have a directory 'temp' and 
> I'm wanting the above test to succeed.  As with wildcards, even if it did 
> make a match, I'd expect it to fail if there's more than one match of 
> course.  I'm betting this is doable.

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