On Sat, 10 May 1997, John F. Woods wrote:

> For an archive that I maintain, I have been in the habit of testing
> for a directory that might or might not exist with
> 
> 	cp file /archive/path/directory/
> [...]

1) Why not use `test -d'?

2) I'm pretty certain this is POSIX-compliant behavior, but I don't have a
copy of the standard, so you'll have to take this with a grain of salt.
:-}

--scott