Yeah. On many shells, cd ~ is treated as a synonym for cd $HOME, however cd ~logname (where logname is your login name) should work.
But the real issue is that $HOME has been set incorrectly; it should ALWAYS be an absolute pathname.
It looks like you may have accidentally removed the leading "/" from $HOME. If you log out and log back in and $HOME still does not start with a "/", you'll need to dig through your shell's initialization files and correct the line that sets HOME.
Until you find the problem, assuming your login name is mecaka, the following should get your current shell execution environment back to a reasonable state:
I just went back and read my original post. I am not posting this from the browser on my VM, so I could not copy and paste... There is a backslash before home, and there has been the whole time. I apologize for this confusion. I will correct this in the original.
However, if this was not the issue, what is? The PWD is "/home/*****/Documents" (assuming this helps any...)
I must add, I don't know much about the behind-the-scenes workings of programming. There might be something quote-en-qoute "obvious" that I wouldn't have caught.
Hi
I have this code, and i want work with a ls -shalR output in .txt
What i need read to do this??
Where start?
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Allrights- A perl tool for making backups of file permissions
# Copyright (C) 2005 Norbert Klein <norbert@acodedb.com>
# This program is free... (1 Reply)
hi,,
i have perl scipt with line :
system('./try.sh $t $d $m');
in shell scipt try.sh i have the line:
echo $1
its not printing value of $t that i hav passed..y is it so..i am running it from apache web server (2 Replies)
Novice to perl here.
I have created a simple web page in perl, with only one submit button. I would like to execute a bash script on the same server when this button is clicked on.
Is this possible in perl? I have spent a few days researching this and am unable to find any useful information.... (0 Replies)
Hi
I m new to perl. I m trying to write a perl script that calls a bash script; does anyone have a script already that they can provide or help me out? Thanks a lot. (2 Replies)
I am writing a script to write to and a sort txt file. After I sort the file I want to add 2 to each line of the file. My script thus far is
#!/bin/bash
cat > /ramdisk/home/stux/unsortedints.out
COUNT=0
FILE =/ramdisk/home/stux/unsortedints.out
for i in {1..100}
do
NUMBER = $
echo $NUMBER... (3 Replies)
Ok, don't ask me why, but all calls to perl must be called by a shell script. Its really not ideal, but its what I have to work with.
Calling it isnt the issue, its passing in the arguments.
I have about 1000 perl scripts to call by a shell script. Right now, I'm executing the shell script... (3 Replies)
In a bash script, one can call a perl command in the following manner, where "myperlcommand" is a perl command.
perl -e 'myperlcommand(arguments)'
perl -e 'print("UUUU"x4)'
Now, how can one call a bash command from within a perl script? (Suppose that mybashcommand is a bash... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Just have a requirement, I am executing a bash shell script, my requirement is to catch the pid and job name to a txt file in the same directory, is there anyway to do it? please help me out.
Regards
Rahul
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Hi,
I need help in writing a shell script which can read data from a text file (Cancel_ID.txt) and then calls sqlplus session (Cancel.sql) with the first line parameter of the text file ("0322600453") till all rows are not completed.
... (4 Replies)
Hi, I am complete new to C programming and shell scripting. I just wrote a simple C code to calculate integral using trapezoid rule. I am prompting user to pass me No. of equally spaced points , N , upper and lower limit. My code looks as follows so far:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
pnews
PNEWS(1) General Commands Manual PNEWS(1)NAME
Pnews - a program for posting news articles
SYNOPSIS
Pnews newsgroup title
or
Pnews -h headerfile [oldarticle]
or
Pnews
DESCRIPTION
Pnews is a friendly interface for posting news articles. It will ask several questions, then allow you to enter your article, and then
post it using the inews(1) program. If you type h and a carriage return at any point, Pnews will tell you what it wants to know.
The -h form is used when invoked from rn. If your editor can edit multiple files, and you want the article to which you are replying to
show up as an alternate file, define the environment variable NEWSPOSTER as "Pnews -h %h %A". You can also modify the the NEWSHEADER envi-
ronment variable to change the header file that rn passes to Pnews.
ENVIRONMENT
AUTHORCOPY
If defined, contains the name of a file to which the finished article will be appended.
Default: article not saved
DOTDIR Where to find your dot files, if they aren't in your home directory. This is primarily for accounts which are shared by more than
one person.
Default: $HOME
EDITOR The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined.
Default: whatever your news administrator installed, usually vi.
HOME Your home directory.
Default: $LOGDIR
LOGDIR Your home directory if HOME is undefined.
LOGNAME Your login name, if USER is undefined.
Default: value of "whoami".
NAME Your full name.
Default: name from /etc/passwd, or ~/.fullname.
ORGANIZATION
Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file containing the name of your organization.
Default: whatever your news administrator chose.
USER Your login name.
Default: $LOGNAME
VISUAL The editor you want to use.
Default: $EDITOR
FILES
$DOTDIR/.article
~/dead.article
SEE ALSO rn(1), Rnmail(1), inews(1)DIAGNOSTICS BUGS
Not the speediest program in the world, but maybe that's a blessing to the net.
LOCAL PNEWS(1)