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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash script: issue changing directories in script Post 302319203 by methyl on Sunday 24th of May 2009 03:54:41 PM
Old 05-24-2009
You may be safer with ls -1 (ls hyphen one) which just lists the names for the files, then pipe to a "while read". This is in case you have filenames containing space characters which will break the "for" statement or you have so many files that the "for" statement becomes too long.
You have an issue with $entry which is not referred to at all and is probably surplus.
It would also be better to place $2 in to a named variable for readability.
Notice how we put double quotes round any parameter (including filenames) to preserve any embedded space characters.

I like your use of comment lines. Very good.



Code:
elif [ -d "${2}" ]   #test the command line argument for a directory
then
#change directories to the the second command line argument
        cd "${2}"
        ls -1 | while read filename
        do
        # Verify that the name read in the directory is a file
                if [ -f "${filename}" ]
                then
        # Search the files for the pattern specified by $1, then call search.sh
            ./search.sh "${1}" "${listing}"

Bump: bakunin has made a valid point. The cd could cause the "./search" statement to fail unless the script called "search" existed in that directory.

At the start if the script (or in your .profile) you can change $PATH to ensure that you find your scripts.

Let's say that your scripts are in directory /home/Breakology/scripts .
If we want to refer to our scripts by name we can adjust the PATH.

Code:
PATH=${PATH}:/home/Breakology/scripts
export PATH

The script called "search" can then be called as "search" not "./search".

Addition Information Added:

(I have absolutely no idea where the "bump" came from and I am sending this post to test a theory).
 

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