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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple Bash Read File question Post 302120819 by lamagra on Friday 8th of June 2007 10:05:10 AM
Old 06-08-2007
You know shell thats a really good idea..

Sorry all I guess it would have been a little more beneficial if I would have done that the first.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

cd /test/me/i/am/a/noob/ie

#COUNTER=0
#while [ $COUNTER -lt 2 ]; do
command that lives in IE directory
#done





FILENAME=$1
while read line
 do
  echo test
  #echo $line
done < $FILENAME


I see the problem now that I have pasted it in here. Because i do a cd to be able to run the command that lives in the ie directory. Doing this changes where I am pointing to and would not recognize the test.txt file.

How do I use the command in ie (directory) without cding?

Can I set it to a variable such as:

Code:
COMMAND_PATH=/test/me/i/am/a/noob/ie
$COMMAND_PATH/COMMAND ARGS

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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