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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Urgent!! Bash - problem using CD with variable Post 302103313 by jacksam007 on Wednesday 17th of January 2007 05:20:24 PM
Old 01-17-2007
Urgent!! Bash - problem using CD with variable

I am extracting directory path from file which is stored in a variable.

while read inputline
do
script_name=`echo $inputline | cut -d' ' -f2`
cd $script_name
done < path_scripts.txt

where as path_scripts contains

input_process.bash ~/jobs/process/input/bin

The script output says no directory present
script1.sh: cd: ~/jobs/process/input/bin: No such file or directory

This is valid directory path but still i get the error. Could you please let me know why? how to fix this?
 

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ATF-SH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ATF-SH(1)

NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a specific interpreter. EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with: #! /usr/bin/env atf-sh Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter: #! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash ENVIRONMENT
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