Quoting Peper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > try > > blah=`pwd`'/blah' > > > > *Note the single quotes do not enclose `pwd` > > I know how to use `command`, but the problem is that i read blah from > file. > blah=`head -n x file|tail -n 1` and in the file i have lines `pwd`/blah. > > $ echo $blah > `pwd`/blah > > This is the problem. >
try with eval then: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ a='`pwd`/Ranma' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $a `pwd`/Ranma [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eval cd $a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Ranma $ pwd /home/dabicho/Ranma [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Ranma $ cd - /home/dabicho [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eval echo $a /home/dabicho/Ranma hope that helps ------------------------------------------------- www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunicándonos -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
