On Thursday 06 January 2005 15:14, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Greetings > I am about to start a script for installing a couple of updates and I got > this far : > > #!/bin/sh > > echo "Starting install process ;-)" > pwd > > > Now the very first thing i need, is a thing I can't do > ha ha! > > The script will run from a folder probably called "updates" > What I have never worked out was how to make the current working dir a > variable for this. As this folder could be copied anywhere in the file > system! > so the script will have to work regardless of what the absolute path is. > Endusers can be stupid you know and make 10 copies of the folder before > getting the updates folder into the correct one. > > I figured I would need to put in a pwd command. > > but how do you make the script recognise the pwd output as a variable? > > Is there a simple example I cam work from? the current working directory is already stored in an environment variable called (shock horror) PWD. (as in 'echo $PWD') but if you wanted to do it the hard way: currentdir=`/bin/pwd` or currentdir=$(/bin/pwd) would both do this for you -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX No question is so difficult as one to which the answer is obvious.
