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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers ksh - walking back up a directory PATH Post 302264096 by surfbus78 on Wednesday 3rd of December 2008 06:02:58 AM
Old 12-03-2008
hi there,

thanks for the fantastic responsese. I've tried a few of the suggestions but what i need to avoid is the need to have to actually be in the directory structure.
Basically i want to provide the tree structure as a value and have this broken down into its constituent parts as described in the first post.

can anybody help?

cheers

Steve
 

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