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Confirms if directory exists

        confirmdir full direcotory name

        
Description

    confirmdir is designed for programmers who want to know if a directory
    exists.  This is just like confirm command when used to confirm a file.
    If Stata allowed their confirm command to also have the "dir" option,
    this program would not have been written.  Stata's confirm file will
    confirm a directory in UNIX/Linux but not in Windows.  confirmdir works
    in all operating systems.

Examples

    .  confirmdir "c:\My Favorite Directory\Where I Keep Stuff\"

    .  confirmdir /projects/ethiopia/survey2002/data/


Saved Results

    The confirmdir command saves in r():
 
    Macros         
      r(confirmdir)       return code returned by the cd command.


Author

    Dan Blanchette
    The Carolina Population Center
    University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA
    dan_blanchette@unc.edu


Also see

    On-line: confirm cd, tmpdir (if installed)