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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding relative path of a file Post 302114521 by cfajohnson on Monday 16th of April 2007 08:20:21 PM
Old 04-16-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by chiru_h
I have to relatively get the path of a file to use it in the script.

The directory structure is /export/opt/XTools/ and under this there are several version directories - 1.0_A0, 1.0_A1, 1.0_A2 etc.,. The actual file is under these directories: installscript.sh

My script should pickup the file from the latest version by itself. In the below script, the script should take A2 by checking the directory path.

My script:
#!/bin/ksh
#
./export/opt/XTools/1.0_A2/installscript.sh

Code:
set -- $( ls -t ./export/opt/XTools/*/installscript.sh )
$1

 

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