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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change of directory thru script Post 302112429 by bigearsbilly on Wednesday 28th of March 2007 04:40:25 AM
Old 03-28-2007
you can use a function in your interactive shell...

here's a silly thing I use.
Put it in a file and source it and I have a CD command which
gives me a choice of my ENV directories.
(i am lazy)

Code:
function CD
{
unset list
    env | while read line;do
        var=${line%=*}
        val=${line#*=}
        [ -d $val ] && list="$list $var"
    done

    select dir in $list;do
        eval cd \$$dir
        break
    done
unset list
}

 

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bbackupd-config - Box Backup client daemon configuration file generator SYNOPSIS
bbackupd-config config-dir backup-mode account-num server-hostname working-dir backup-dir [backup-dir ...] DESCRIPTION
The bbackupd-config script creates configuration files and client certificates. It takes at least six parameters: config-dir Configuration directory. Usually /etc/box. backup-mode Either lazy or snapshot. account-num The client account number. This is set by the bbstored administrator. server-hostname The hostname or IP address of the bbstored server. working-dir A directory to keep temporary state files. This is usually something like /var/bbackupd. This can be changed in bbackupd.conf later on if required. backup-dir A space-separated list of directories to be backed up. Note that this does not traverse mount points. FILES
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