Is this a useless if statement? If the directory doesn't exist, this could return an exit code of 1, which could cause an error.

Is this a useless if statement? If the directory doesn't exist, this could return an exit code of 1, which could cause an error.

Because "set -e" is not enabled, it will not exit on error.

True, although it should have been set. But this doesn't change anything either. Wy bother?