How to check Windows remote path exists from Linux command?

spark_sara

My Jenkins pipeline runs from Linux machine and I want to check if Windows shared path like - '\\domain\parent\child\grand-child\ exists or not through shell script. If same was to run from Windows machine, then following would have helped - if exist <windows-shared-path> echo "Path present" Could you please share linux command to achieve this i.e. if windows shared path exists from Linux machine?

Originally asked by Alpha on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

You could use smbclient like this: smbclient -U'<domain>\<user>%<password>' '\\server\path\to\dir' -c exit && echo exists || echo does not exist I.e. smbclient will fail or succeed depending on availability of the given location and return an exit code of 0 or 1 , respectively. By directly issuing exit as command, we do nothing on the share itself.

Full answer by FelixJN: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/655467 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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