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I'm not looking for a way to find a directory, I'm looking for a way to get the full path based on a shell script's working directory and a directory argument sent to the script, into a variable.

No, that's exactly what it can't do since the directory specified might not exist.


None of the examples work atm since I'm not sure how to do this. I probably could make them all work by making...

I enter:
./myscript.sh anypath...where anypath can be any path, relative or not. Eg:
../etc/stuff/test
/home/user/foobar
files
files/extraI then want to convert this into the full path, eg...

Kids have homework in shell scripting now? O.o

Nah, I wanted to make it quicker to run an application for which i often use similar syntaxes and figured it would be nice to learn some shell...

I'm trying to write my first shell script and got a bit stuck with this:

I've got myscript.sh that executes from /fromhere.

If the script is run with the syntax ./myscript.sh tothere:
I need...