On Sunday 21 November 2004 10:34 am, K-sPecial wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > Quick answer: How might one retrieve the path to the most recent entry in > > a directory to pass to something else in a bash script? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ echo $OLDPWD > /home/kspecial > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ echo $PWD > /tmp > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ > > PWD contains the current directory while OLDPWD contains the last > accessed directory. > > --K-sPecial
Just maybe you could use $ cd - It worked for me. daveA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]