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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Variable directory name in path Post 302354489 by glev2005 on Friday 18th of September 2009 09:58:12 AM
Old 09-18-2009
Variable directory name in path

I need to write a login script for multiple computers, however, one of the directories in question will have a different name from computer to computer.

Code:
~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/<unique filename>.default/myfile

For the directory named <unique filename>.default , I need to figure out how to get a wildcard going or set a variable so that I can create a file in a directory below it. All computers will have the .default extension on that directory, but different strings will preceed the dot. I imagine I can do a grep with a wildcard and then set a variable based on the results, but if that is the easiest way, I still would need help to accomplish it. Thanks for your time!
 

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