[Scottish] storing current directory

[iain d broadfoot]

* Mark McRitchie (Mark.McRitchie at salamis.co.uk) wrote:
> > -----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.

$ echo `file \`find tmp\`|grep text|cut -f1 -d:`
tmp/beneath_a_steel_sky.txt

iain

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