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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Custom directory path variable Post 302461038 by vbe on Friday 8th of October 2010 09:30:31 AM
Old 10-08-2010
From what I understand now, is :
Your script does a cd to what is given as argument the the command pwd...
the 2 first examples will work not the next ones, why?
Will that be your new assignment?
(clue: Commonly in unix, not giving the path is uderstood as *relative" to current, as you can see why your two last examples will not work. You would now have to write a few tests in your script to see if argument could be a directory in a tree using the command find and hope it is unique if not... I let you choose the way you want to end...
Last edited by vbe; 10-08-2010 at 10:35 AM..
 

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pwd

pwd(3tcl)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							 pwd(3tcl)

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NAME

       pwd - Return the absolute path of the current working directory

SYNOPSIS

       pwd
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DESCRIPTION

       Returns the absolute path name of the current working directory.

EXAMPLE

       Sometimes it is useful to change to a known directory when running some external command using exec, but it is important to keep the appli-
       cation usually running in the directory that it was started in (unless the user specifies otherwise) since that minimizes  user	confusion.
       The way to do this is to save the current directory while the external command is being run:
	      set tarFile [file normalize somefile.tar]
	      set savedDir [pwd]
	      cd /tmp
	      exec tar -xf $tarFile
	      cd $savedDir

SEE ALSO

       file(3tcl), cd(3tcl), glob(3tcl), filename(3tcl)

KEYWORDS

       working directory

Tcl																	 pwd(3tcl)
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