On Monday 23 June 2003 10:54 am, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Suppose I have a short script as such:
>
> find . -name 'wwwboard.html' -print | while read i
> do
> print $i
> done
>
> how can I pass the name of the directory where $i lurks to another
> variable, such as $dir?
Well, you could do something like:
MYDIR=$PWD
find . -name 'wwwboard.html' -print | while read i
do
print $i
done
there's other ways to do it of course, $PWD is the pwd, but if you call cd you
will change it. You could also use `pwd` in a variable to...
Mike
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