Common Lisp - how to say if a pathname points to a regular file or a directory?

Question

Is it possible to 'stat' a file and find its file type - regular or directory?

Answer 1

I think there are several ways. probe-file followed by checking the returned true name to determine that it has a directory name but not a filename and type should do it. e.g. for a directory

(pathname-name (probe-file filespec))

-> NIL