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Old 09-17-2008
Question read output in ?
hi all!

im making a program to update a file on a usb device. but the mount point is different from computer to computer depending on drives, now im updating the changes.lzm on a usb system based on slax. called backtrack, so thers a folder on the root of the memory stick called BT3. and i know if i use find
Code:
*/BT3 -maxdepth 0

i get
Code:
sdb1/BT3

so is there some way i can read the output and assign it to a variable in bourne shell? or find the mount point of the usb device? any help would be awsome SmilieSmilieSmilie
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Old 09-17-2008

Use command substitution:

Code:
dir=`find ... ...`

Last edited by cfajohnson; 09-17-2008 at 10:56 PM..
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Old 09-17-2008
Yay!
Thank you so much!!
# 4  
Old 09-18-2008
or use UUID to mount the usb stick on all pcs on the same place
use blkid to get the UUID of all partitions
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