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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Find exact path of a file/directory Post 302480178 by anurag.singh on Tuesday 14th of December 2010 07:23:46 AM
Old 12-14-2010
This may help (If input file/dir to function is in inputDir variable)
Code:
 
pwd=$(pwd) # Save current dir value
# Get the dir value in input if it is a filename
dir="$inputDir"
if [ -f "$inputDir" ]; then
     dir=$(dirname "$inputDir")
fi
if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
    # Translate to normal path
    dir=$(cd $dir;pwd)
    cd $pwd
    # Check if dir starts with pwd
    valid=$(echo "$dir" | grep "$pwd.*" | wc -l)
    if [ valid -gt 0 ]; then
       echo "Input parameter is in current dir"
    else
       echo "Input parameter is out of current dir"
    fi
else
   echo "$dir not exists"

Last edited by anurag.singh; 12-14-2010 at 08:38 AM..
 

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xmdirectiontostringdirection

XmDirectionToStringDirection(library call)								XmDirectionToStringDirection(library call)

NAME

       XmDirectionToStringDirection -- A function that converts an XmDirection value to an XmStringDirection value

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/Xm.h>
       XmStringDirection XmDirectionToStringDirection (dir)
	       XmDirection     dir;
       (void)

DESCRIPTION

       XmDirectionToStringDirection  converts  the specified XmDirection direction value to its equivalent XmStringDirection value.  Basically, if
       the XmDirection value has a horizontal direction specification, that horizontal element is used; otherwise, the XmStringDirection value	is
       interpreted as XmSTRING_DIRECTION_L_TO_R.  This function provides backward compatibility with the XmStringDirection data type.

       Note  that the Motif toolkit also contains an XmStringDirectionToDirection routine to convert an XmStringDirection value to its XmDirection
       equivalent.

       dir	 Specifies the XmDirection value to be converted.

RETURN

       Returns the following XmStringDirection values:

       XmSTRING_DIRECTION_R_TO_L
		 If the dir argument has a right to left horizontal direction value in it, for example XmRIGHT_TO_LEFT_TOP_TO_BOTTOM.

       XmSTRING_DIRECTION_L_TO_R
		 If the dir argument has a left to right horizontal direction in it, for example XmLEFT_TO_RIGHT_TOP_TO_BOTTOM, or if the horizon-
		 tal direction value in the dir argument is ambiguous, such as in the XmTOP_TO_BOTTOM value.

       XmSTRING_DIRECTION_DEFAULT
		 If there was no horizontal direction specified.

RELATED INFORMATION

       XmDirection(3),	XmDirectionMatch(3),  XmDirectionMatchPartial(3),  XmDirectionToStringDirection(3), XmString(3), XmStringDirection(3), and
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													XmDirectionToStringDirection(library call)
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