wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php:481Checks if a file or directory exists.
$pathstringbool public function exists( $path ) { /* * Check for empty path. If ftp_nlist() receives an empty path, * it checks the current working directory and may return true. * * See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33058. */ if ( '' === $path ) { return false; } $list = ftp_nlist( $this->link, $path ); if ( empty( $list ) && $this->is_dir( $path ) ) { return true; // File is an empty directory. } return ! empty( $list ); // Empty list = no file, so invert. }Introduced in 2.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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