[Techtalk] problem with changing directory in a script
Little Girl
littlergirl at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 14:57:42 UTC 2015
Hey there,
Miriam English wrote:
> It looks like there isn't any way to use the tilde, then... unless
> I write my own expansion routine... which is too much hassle as
> this is just a crappy program for my own use. I was just wanting to
> make it more general-purpose in case it might be useful for other
> people.
I'm not sure if these would be of any use, but both of them take me
to the Desktop in Linux Mint MATE:
test=~/Desktop;cd $test;
test="$HOME/Desktop";cd $test;
Quotes are often the bane of my existence. (:
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Little Girl
There is no spoon.
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