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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Resolved: Building a string with a path in it Post 302382697 by Spetnik on Thursday 24th of December 2009 12:03:28 PM
Old 12-24-2009
Resolved: Building a string with a path in it

I know this is probably simple, but the brain cells that originally stored my shell scripting classes from 10+ years ago have long since been drowned in beer.

I need to create a string (to append to a file) containing a path derived from the current path. Basically, I want to append "/something" to the end of the results of a "pwd" command. How would I go about this?

Thanks
AS

---------- Post updated at 01:03 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:56 PM ----------

I found the answer. It was:
Code:
echo `pwd`/something

I new it was simple!

Last edited by Spetnik; 12-24-2009 at 01:06 PM.. Reason: resolved
 

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