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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting My variable cannot be passed through into my path Post 302347803 by cyberfrog on Wednesday 26th of August 2009 12:15:26 PM
Old 08-26-2009
My variable cannot be passed through into my path
Hi,
Can you please help. I am scripting in sh and I am trying to simply copy one directory to another but for some reason my variables are not recognised?

HTML Code:
echo "The latest version of the program is being found......."
cd $SOFTWARE/src/$progname
version=`ls $SOFTWARE/src/$progname | grep 'v00*'  | tail -1`
echo "Latest version for $progname is $version"
 
#Copy over the latest version of the program
cp -r $SOFTWARE/src/$progname/$version $SOFTWARE/devl/$progname
The problem is to do with the $version variable it seems because when I subsitute $version with a directory name that is hard coded it works BUT when you simply echo $version it also looks correct. Do I need to convert it to a different format or something?

CF
 

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