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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting I want to read the content of a specific folder Post 302952728 by Linuxmann on Friday 21st of August 2015 09:41:50 AM
Old 08-21-2015
How combine pwd with my file?

These not work:

Code:
x=$(pwd)
a = "/workspace"
c =x + a
echo "The current working directory : $c"

---------- Post updated at 08:41 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:35 AM ----------

Now i use these but it don't work also.

Code:
#!/bin/sh

a=$(pwd)
b=/workspace
c=/workspace


cd $a$b


array=($(ls -d */))
 echo ${array[@]}

 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

pwd

pwd.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							      pwd.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       pwd.h, pwd - password structure

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pwd.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The <pwd.h> header provides a definition for struct passwd, which includes the following members:

       char  *pw_name	  user's login name
       uid_t pw_uid	  numerical user ID
       gid_t pw_gid	  numerical group ID
       char  *pw_dir	  initial working di rectory
       char  *pw_shell	  program to use as shell

       The gid_t and uid_t types are defined as described in <sys/types.h>. See types.h(3HEAD).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       getpwnam(3C), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    10 Sep 2004 						      pwd.h(3HEAD)
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