Shell Programming and Scripting

I know this is probably simple, but the brain cells that originally stored my shell scripting classes from 10+ years ago have long since been drowned in beer.

I need to create a string (to append to a file) containing a path derived from the current path. Basically, I want to append "/something" to the end of the results of a "pwd" command. How would I go about this?

Thanks
AS

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I found the answer. It was:

Code:

echo `pwd`/something

I new it was simple!

You don't need an external command for that, the shell variable PWD is available in most shells:

Code:

$PWD/something

pwd is a shell builtin, not an external command.

(But you're right; it's better to use $PWD (available in all POSIX shells), as command substitution is slow.)

Yes, my mistake.

Thanks for pointing it out!

I saw the backticks and I wrote external command, instead of subshell.