Thanks.
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Yeah, I tried the script too and it works fine.Carlo Aureus On 3 Apr 2003, Bret Hughes wrote:On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 17:54, Ron Franke wrote:Hi: I'm having a strange problem with a bash script when trying to cd with a $variable. A simple example script follows. The issue is on the line with cd ${copydir}. I'm wondering if there is a bash issue or something in my environment that I'm missing. I have RedHat 8.0 and use the update service and have picked up all updates, I believe. Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. Ron #!/bin/bash copydir=/home/ron/copy/ echo ${copydir} pwd cd copy pwd cd .. pwd cd ${copydir} pwd cd ~ pwd The following is output from the script with the error [EMAIL PROTECTED] ron]$ test.sh /home/ron/copy/ /home/ron /home/ron/copy /home/ron : No such file or directoryme/ron/copy/ /home/ron /home/ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] ron]$There must be some funny non printing char in there somewhere. I cut and pasted right from your email and changed the dir and it worked fine. It might not be a bad idea to quote the string. as a rule I do. Bret
