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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to execute script on files in another directory? Post 302396114 by npatwardhan on Wednesday 17th of February 2010 07:28:25 PM
Old 02-17-2010
How to execute script on files in another directory?
Hi Guys,

Is there any way I can execute my bash script on files in a different folder than what the script is in? Here is an excerpt of my script:

Code:
 
#!/usr/bin/bash
input_path="/cygdrive/c/files"
output_path="/cygdrive/c/files/data"
#script uses files from /cygdrive/c/files directory, processes them and saves them to "/cygdrive/c/files/data" directory
#processing; BODY OF SCRIPT

My script is in /cygdrive/c/unix and I want execute it from there but use the files in the /cygdrive/c/files directory and save the files in the /cygdrive/c/files/data directory.

How can I do this? Do I have to set the path somewhere.

Thanks in advance for your help.
 

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