Bash script: issue changing directories in script

Breakology · #1 (**permalink**) 05-24-2009

I am working on a script that checks two arguments at the command line. The first argument is a search pattern, the second can be a file or a directory, if it is a file a second script is called that checks it for the search pattern. If the second argument is a directory, it checks for the search pattern in all files in the that directory.
The script works ok if the second argument is a sub-directory of the working directory of the script. The issue occurs when the script needs to change directories. I don't think it likes the "/" if I specify a directory, but i'm stuck as far figuring out what to do next.

Here is the snippet of code I am having the trouble with:

Code:

elif [ -d $2 ]   #test the command line argument for a directory
then
#change directories to the the second command line argument
        cd $2
        filename=`ls -l | cut -c59-78`
        for entry in $filename
        do
        # Verify that the name read in the directory is a file
                if [ -f $filename ]
                then
        # Search the files for the pattern specified by $1, then call search.sh
            ./search.sh $1 $listing

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