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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Relative path not safe Post 302796633 by Scrutinizer on Saturday 20th of April 2013 04:43:00 AM
Old 04-20-2013
I suspect he is referring to $PWD which is the basis for your paths. So all your paths will be relative to $PWD, which is the path the caller of the script happens to be in when he calls the script. So indeed that location would be determined outside the script.

So you would either need to use a cd-command before that statement or use an absolute path instead. Or, if you need to use paths relative to the location of your script, you could perhaps use information from $0 as the basis...
 

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amanda-scripts

AMANDA-SCRIPTS(7)						    Miscellanea 						 AMANDA-SCRIPTS(7)

NAME

       amanda-scripts - Configuring and using the Script API

DESCRIPTION

       The Script API is a flexible system for invoking user-supplied scripts at various points in the execution of Amanda. This manual page
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SCRIPTS

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SCRIPTS OUTPUT PROPERTY

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	   Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

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