Hi, I know there's some hardcore shell heads on this list, so I was hoping I could solicit some assistance here...
I've isolated the problem to an inability to make a variable declaration accessible outside of the script. It's almost as if there were a bash form of "use strict" going on that was keeping my variables within the scope of the script. If I try to echo $newPWD, I get nothing -- but I can see that $newPWD is getting set in the script. I've tried "export newPWD", which doesn't do anything either. This is obviously some fundamental rule of variable scope in bash that I just don't know, so can someone set me right? Bash v. 2.02 on Solaris. Thanks, Erik #!/usr/local/bin/bash #(yes, that's the location of bash on my system) # How many characters of the $PWD should be kept pwdmaxlen=30 # indicator that there has been directory truncation trunc_symbol="..." if [ ${#PWD} -gt $pwdmaxlen ] then pwdoffset=$(( ${#PWD} - $pwdmaxlen )) newPWD="${trunc_symbol}${PWD:${pwdoffset}:${pwdmaxlen}}" else newPWD=${PWD} fi _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss