C++ - Determining if directory (not a file) exists in Linux [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you can check out the boost filesystem library. It's a great way to deal with this kind of problems in a generic and portable manner.

In this case it would suffice to use:

#include "boost/filesystem.hpp"   
using namespace boost::filesystem; 
...
if ( !exists( "test/mydir" ) ) {bla bla}