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Top Forums Programming Accessing directories in Linux Post 302985830 by pinbot on Tuesday 15th of November 2016 11:29:33 PM
Old 11-16-2016
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Originally Posted by Corona688
You're very, very close - close enough that I wonder if this is permissions issues rather than program ones... Or, perhaps, parts of the program we didn't see, preventing it from working.
You were correct btw, the way it was originally written was trying to access linux root directory.

Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
By the way, although I don't think this is the issue, you shouldn't double the directory separators:
Interesting, strangely it works both ways.

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Originally Posted by RudiC
WHAT doesn't work? Any error messages? Odd behaviour? Is the source file correctly located/found (in the current working directory)?
No errors everything compiles fine, just can't get it to move up
the directory tree 2 levels.

seems the best I can do is cp file ../ and move up one directory. I may have to rearrange my directory structure to get this to work in linux. Thanks for all your suggestions

Last edited by rbatte1; 11-16-2016 at 09:30 AM.. Reason: Added ICODE tags
 

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cd(1T)							       Tcl Built-In Commands							    cd(1T)

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NAME
cd - Change working directory SYNOPSIS
cd ?dirName? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
Change the current working directory to dirName, or to the home directory (as specified in the HOME environment variable) if dirName is not given. Returns an empty string. Note that the current working directory is a per-process resource; the cd command changes the working directory for all interpreters and (in a threaded environment) all threads. EXAMPLES
Change to the home directory of the user fred: cd ~fred Change to the directory lib that is a sibling directory of the current one: cd ../lib SEE ALSO
filename(1T), glob(1T), pwd(1T) KEYWORDS
working directory ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl cd(1T)
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