Derek Holzer wrote: > Hi IOhannes, > > thanks for the clarifications. I understand now why [shell] doesn't stay > in "/home/derek" between commands. > > I'm not so good at shell scripts, so bear with me for a second.... > > What I'd like to do is pass variables.... so, for example: > > cd /home/derek && mkdir test_$1
in this complicated example i would suggest to run "mkdir /home/derek/test_$1" :-) > > --where $1 is a number created by PD and sent to the shell script. The > dir name could be constructed by [nsprint], for example, as it may have > other variable as well. The shell script would only need a single > variable to receive the constructed dir name. > > Does that make sense? Is this easy to do? > if it get's more complicated just do it like this #!/bin/sh cd /home/derek mkdir test_$1 and call your script with [/path/to/myscript.sh $1( mfga.sdr IOhannes _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
