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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change directory error Post 302924563 by cmccabe on Monday 10th of November 2014 04:11:41 PM
Old 11-10-2014
Thank you all Smilie... I am a scientist learning awk so I don't mean to disregard any advice, I truly appreciate it.

Junior-Helper your code works great and is much easier to read and follow the flow. How do you do things like:

Code:
 match -> additional -> additional -> convert (repeated manual input of ids)

Code:
menu -> match -> convert? -> NO -> additional? -> NO -> menu
        ^               |          |         |
        |               +--> YES --+         +--> YES +
        |                                             |
        +---------------------------------------------+

and use a collapse function for all things related to convert in line 36 or additional in line 49. I use notepad++ on a windows machine. Thank you all again Smilie.

Last edited by cmccabe; 11-10-2014 at 05:18 PM..
 

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cd(1)							      General Commands Manual							     cd(1)

NAME
cd - change working directory SYNOPSIS
[directory] DESCRIPTION
If directory is not specified, the value of shell parameter is used as the new working directory. If directory specifies a complete path starting with or directory becomes the new working directory. If neither case applies, tries to find the designated directory relative to one of the paths specified by the shell variable. has the same syntax as, and similar semantics to, the shell variable. must have execute (search) permission in directory. exists only as a shell built-in command because a new process is created whenever a command is executed, making useless if written and pro- cessed as a normal system command. Moreover, different shells provide different implementations of as a built-in utility. Features of as described here may not be supported by all the shells. Refer to individual shell manual entries for differences. If is called in a subshell or a separate utility execution environment such as: (which invokes on accessible directories) does not affect the current directory of the caller's environment. Another usage of as a stand- alone command is to obtain the exit status of the command. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. Environment Variables The following environment variables affect the execution of The name of the home directory, used when no directory operand is specified. A colon-separated list of pathnames that refer to directories. If the directory operand does not begin with a slash character, and the first component is not dot or dot-dot, searches for directory relative to each directory named in the variable, in the order listed. The new working directory is set to the first matching directory found. An empty string in place of a directory pathname represents the current direc- tory. If is not set, it is treated as if it was an empty string. EXAMPLES
Change the current working directory to the directory from any location in the file system: Change to new current working directory residing in the current directory: or Change to directory residing in the current directory's parent directory: Change to the directory whose absolute pathname is Change to the directory relative to home directory: RETURN VALUE
Upon completion, exits with one of the following values: The directory was successfully changed. An error occurred. The working directory remains unchanged. SEE ALSO
csh(1), pwd(1), ksh(1), sh-posix(1), sh(1), chdir(2). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
cd(1)
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