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# 1  
Old 08-04-2009
how to get fully qualified path name

hi
actually i want to get fully qualified path name of the file when the file name is entered as command line argument while running a shell script
ex. if i run the shell as
Code:
$./test.sh ./nsdnet_file.csv

the it should display me the full path of the file like
Code:
/dialp/Release/bin/nsdnet_file.csv

Smilie

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 08-04-2009 at 07:36 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 08-04-2009
Try something like:

Code:
full=$(pwd)${1#.}
echo $full

Regards
# 3  
Old 08-04-2009
actually this will work only if the nsdnet_file.csv is in the same directory as the shell script.

what if the nsdnet_file is one dir ahead of the shelll script

like if we execute like

$./test.sh ../nsdnet_file.csv
then it should also give the correct path i.e /dialp/Release
# 4  
Old 08-05-2009
Code:
#! /bin/bash
# filePath.bash
# (experimental)

INPUT=$1

FILE=$( basename $INPUT )
PATH=$( echo $INPUT | sed "s/$FILE//" )
PATH=$( cd $PATH && pwd && cd - > /dev/null 2>&1 )

echo $FILE
echo $PATH

exit 0

Code:
[house@discovery] pwd
/home/house
[house@discovery] sh filePath.bash ../this.file
this.file
/home
[house@discovery] sh filePath.bash /root/cron/that.file
that.file
/root/cron
[house@discovery] sh filePath.bash ../house/Desktop/no.file
no.file
/home/house/Desktop

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