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Old 10-30-2006
Amruta Pitkar Amruta Pitkar is offline
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How to set the File Paths for Inputs and Outputs

I have couple of shell scripts.
Each shell script accepts command line argument as inputfilename.
Each shell script creates a summary file, status file.

All these files are stored in a particular directory...Eg
InputFile is to be picked from /home/ProjectName/ftp_inputfiles/
Outputs are to be stored into /home/ProjectName/outputs/
StatusFiles are to be stored into /home/ProjectName/status/

Currently these shell scripts have their FILEPATHS for each files, hardcoded.

The project is now undergoing a major directory structure change.

I want to set the file paths (at only one node) so that all the shell scripts can acccess the inputs from right directories, and write the outputs to correct specified directories.
Like write all .txt, .lst to /home/NewProjectDirStru/outputs
Write all .stt to /home/NewProjectDirStru/status
Pick the inputfile name from /home/NewProjectDirStru/ftp_inputfiles

How do I achieve this...
Am attempting to do something like this for the first time.

Thanks
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