Thank you for the prompt response. I have been concentrating so much on the echo statement that I didn't think about altering the way the string is stored in the environment variable.
However, I guess I am going to have to rethink how I am doing things. If I alter the variable as suggested, then the echo works fine but the transfer command doesn't like it. (I am attempting to use the same variable to echo to the screen and pass to the transfer command)
Example:
This works for the echo statement, but the IntrnTrans program doesn't like it.
hello everybody,
I am trying to find the path of the Recycle Bin. I know that it's a temporary storage place, but it should have a path that we can refer to.
I want to know it because I sometimes use cygwin to work on Windows, and when you delete something with it, it's gone. I just checked... (4 Replies)
This is on a Solaris 9 box, but I feel like a noob, so I am posting here. When I echo $PATH I get a lot of duplicate paths and extra stuff I don't need. What I want is just what I set up in my home dir under .profile
My login shell=/bin/bash
I checked the following and there are no path... (1 Reply)
I need to run my shell script just by typing its name rather than doing sh <scrpit name>. I think its something to do with my profile and path.
echo $path is giving me output as follows:
sr/games /opt/gnome/bin /opt/kde3/bin /usr/bin/X11 /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin... (3 Replies)
Hi experts,
I was wondering if there is a way to access some NFS symlink files that are set using absolute paths from Windows?
On windows/cygwin, I'm able to access relative path symlinks but not the absolute path symlinks.
Assume on Linux (mylinux):
/usr/local/file.c
ln -s... (1 Reply)
Hello all!
I am on Mac (10.8.4) and my shell tcsh (man says version: Astron 6.17.00). Just to precise my tcsh:
echo $LC_CTYPE
UTF-8
I want to replace all ':' with a new line, to get all paths on one line. I don't find a way to make my shell accept the "\n"
My start was:
echo... (17 Replies)
Hi all,
I am using Perl 5.8.8 on an Aix 6.1.0.0 to script a program which will retrieve files recursively on a remote Windows 2003 server and copy some of them on my Aix server.
MobaSSH is installed on that windows server.
When I used scp on the command line, it works fine, but not in a... (2 Replies)
Greetings Experts,
I need to pass a parameter to ksh and the value is windows path eg: sh abc.txt C:\Users\chill3chee\Desktop
No matter I try with \ delimiter, still could not get this exact value assigned to the shell variable which was checked with echo. Tried with using... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
dirname
DIRNAME(3) 1 DIRNAME(3)dirname - Returns parent directory's pathSYNOPSIS
string dirname (string $path)
DESCRIPTION
Given a string containing the path of a file or directory, this function will return the parent directory's path.
PARAMETERS
o $path
- A path. On Windows, both slash ( /) and backslash ( ) are used as directory separator character. In other environments, it is
the forward slash ( /).
RETURN VALUES
Returns the path of the parent directory. If there are no slashes in $path, a dot (' .') is returned, indicating the current directory.
Otherwise, the returned string is $path with any trailing /component removed.
CHANGELOG
+--------+-------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+-------------------------------+
| 5.0.0 | |
| | |
| | dirname(3) is now binary safe |
| | |
+--------+-------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
dirname(3) example
<?php
echo "1) " . dirname("/etc/passwd") . PHP_EOL; // 1) /etc
echo "2) " . dirname("/etc/") . PHP_EOL; // 2) / (or on Windows)
echo "3) " . dirname("."); // 3) .
?>
NOTES
Note
dirname(3) operates naively on the input string, and is not aware of the actual filesystem, or path components such as " ..".
Note
dirname(3) is locale aware, so for it to see the correct directory name with multibyte character paths, the matching locale must be
set using the setlocale(3) function.
Note
Since PHP 4.3.0, you will often get a slash or a dot back from dirname(3) in situations where the older functionality would have
given you the empty string.
Check the following change example:
<?php
//before PHP 4.3.0
dirname('c:/'); // returned '.'
//after PHP 4.3.0
dirname('c:/x'); // returns 'c:'
dirname('c:/Temp/x'); // returns 'c:/Temp'
dirname('/x'); // returns ''
?>
SEE ALSO basename(3), pathinfo(3), realpath(3).
PHP Documentation Group DIRNAME(3)