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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Custom directory path variable Post 302461043 by Chronomaly on Friday 8th of October 2010 09:55:42 AM
Old 10-08-2010
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Originally Posted by vbe
From what I understand now, is :
Your script does a cd
No, that's exactly what it can't do since the directory specified might not exist.

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the 2 first examples will work not the next ones, why?
None of the examples work atm since I'm not sure how to do this. I probably could make them all work by making loads of if arguments and substr's. That feels more like a workaround to me though, and I'm looking for a direct way to do this.

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(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.
Actually the first example was using a relative path as well.

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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...
Like I said, the directory might not exist and the point is to grab directory names from the syntax argument so I wouldn't know what to search for.
 

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