Why was this posted to -stable? Anyway ... Andrew D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > On the Ubuntu computer I am /home/kline; on my main computer, > > my home is /usr/home/kline. The following sh script worked > > perfected when my home on "tao" [FBSD] was /home/kline:
I always create symlinks from /home to /usr/home or vice versa, so both of them always work. > ~kline is an alias for the home directory for the user kline. You can > use that in your scripts rather than the full path :) > As far as I know it works in all *nix variants. It's not a matter of the UNIX variant, it's a matter of the shell. Most shells support the "~" tilde expansion (FreeBSD's sh, csh, and shells from ports such as bash, ksh and zsh). However, I still recommend to use $HOME instead inside scripts for portability reasons. For example, Solaris' /bin/sh does _not_ support "~". $HOME always works. > > #!/bin/sh > > > > PWD=`pwd`; > > echo "This directory is [${PWD}]"; > > > > scp -qrp ${PWD}/* ethos:/${PWD} Many superfluous characters. You can make it shorter: scp -qrp $PWD/* ethos:$PWD > > ###/usr/bin/scp -rqp -i /home/kline/.ssh/zeropasswd-id ${PWD}/* \ klin > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/${PWD} > > > > Question #1: is there any /bin/sh method of getting rid of the > > "/usr"? I switch off between my two computers especially when > > get mucked up, as with my upgrade to kde4. (Otherwise, I do > > backups of ~kline as well as other critical directories.) The easiest way is to make a symlink from /usr/home to /home, as explained above. To answer your actual question: You can use "#" to remove a prefix in /bin/sh scripts: $ foo=/usr/home/whatever $ echo ${foo#/usr} /home/whatever If the variable doesn't have a matching prefix, the result remains unchanged. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." -- Niklaus Wirth _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"