Question

I am trying to check if an argument is a directory or a file. I want to put a / after each directory name and a * after every executable file. I know ls uses -F to get this information but I can’t figure this out in my script.

Here is my code:

    echo -n "Please enter Directory name you wish to search: "
read dir

for filename in "/home/me/Desktop/$dir"/*

do

    if (-F $filename)
    then 
    echo $filename

    fi
done

Answer 1

[ -f "$filename" ] is true for files, [ -d "$dirname" ] is true for directories.