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unixandria

Reputation: 282

Determine in ash if subdirectory exists but not under a certain directory

I'm writing a script for BusyBox ash, and need to determine if a subdirectory exists so my script can display an error message.

Normally if test -d sub/directory would be my go-to, but the problem here is there's one folder I don't want to trip this logic.

I currently use ls /folder/*/bar | grep -v foo and parse the exit code but I know that's bad practice.

Here's what I'm looking at (bar should trip the logic, foo should not)

/folder/foo/bar <- this should not trip because it contains foo
/folder/dev/bar <- should trip because it contains bar but not foo
/folder/randome/name <- should not trip doesn't contain bar

Is there a proper/better way to do this?

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