Defining states depending on existance of a file/directory

Question

How is it possible to get something like the following running:

{% if not exist(\'/tmp/dummy/\') then %}
dummy:
  file.touch:
    - name: /tmp/dummy/tmp.txt
         


        

Answer 1

{% if 1 == salt['cmd.retcode']('test -f /tmp/woo.test') %}
ack:
  file.touch:
    - name: /tmp/woo.test
{% endif %}