Question

I’m using Mac OSX Lion and I would like to have a script that tells me if a directory is hidden or visible. the directory is .whatyoulookingatfool.

This is what I have now…

#!/bin/bash

#Check for dir
if test -d /Users/NSutton/Documents/.whatyoulookingatfool; then
    echo "go go go"
else
    echo "well shit"
fi

Answer 1

I don’t have any osx machine right here, but I assume that mac has a basename command and new enough bash.

#!/bin/bash

dir=$1
bn=$(basename $dir)

if [[ -d $dir && $bn == .* ]]
then
   echo yep
else
   echo nay
fi

Note that this does not work with . and .. directories.