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path exists for path

Check whether a path exists.

Signature

> path exists {flags}

Input/output types:

input output
list<string> list<bool>
string bool

Examples

Check if a file exists

>'/home/joe/todo.txt'|path exists
false

Check if files in list exist

> [ /home/joe/todo.txt, /home/doe/todo.txt ] |path exists
╭───┬───────╮
0false
1false
╰───┴───────╯

Notes

This only checks if it is possible to either open or cd to the given path. If you need to distinguish dirs and files, please use path type.

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