[Scottish] storing current directory

[Mark McRitchie]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elwell, AD (Andrew) [mailto:A.D.Elwell at dl.ac.uk] 
>
> >     export AMB_TMP=pwd
> 
> welcome to backticks...

Or... You can use 
AMB_TMP=$(pwd)

Using the $(<cmd>) structure in bash means you can easily nest commands
which backticks make difficult/impossible.


Regards,
Mark.

> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	AMB_TMP=`pwd`
> 	cd /some/New/Dir
> 	cd $AMB_TMP
 


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