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I am looking for a good way of checking whether a folder exists from within a Julia script. For now what I am doing is:



function dir_exists(dir)
exists = true
try
readdir(dir)
catch err
exists = false
end
exists
end


but I was wonder if there's a way that doesn't rely on exception handling.










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    I am looking for a good way of checking whether a folder exists from within a Julia script. For now what I am doing is:



    function dir_exists(dir)
    exists = true
    try
    readdir(dir)
    catch err
    exists = false
    end
    exists
    end


    but I was wonder if there's a way that doesn't rely on exception handling.










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      I am looking for a good way of checking whether a folder exists from within a Julia script. For now what I am doing is:



      function dir_exists(dir)
      exists = true
      try
      readdir(dir)
      catch err
      exists = false
      end
      exists
      end


      but I was wonder if there's a way that doesn't rely on exception handling.










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      I am looking for a good way of checking whether a folder exists from within a Julia script. For now what I am doing is:



      function dir_exists(dir)
      exists = true
      try
      readdir(dir)
      catch err
      exists = false
      end
      exists
      end


      but I was wonder if there's a way that doesn't rely on exception handling.







      filesystems julia-lang






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