Cornelius Mostert wrote:
> Thanx but I am familiar with / in Linux and \ in windows... i saw a
> script use \ as i did and naturally I assumes (incorrectly though)
> that it is also | (pipe) but backward pipe like <, come to think of it
> the path the person wanted to append to the variable a path
Thanx but I am familiar with / in Linux and \ in windows... i saw a
script use \ as i did and naturally I assumes (incorrectly though)
that it is also | (pipe) but backward pipe like <, come to think of it
the path the person wanted to append to the variable a path that
contained a space in it so t
Cornelius,
Cornelius Mostert wrote:
>> Are you doing this to avoid the mkdir if the directory you are creating
>> already exists? If so, then the is an option -p which means it is not an
>> error if the directory already exists. It also creates parent
>> directories as needed, so:
>>
>> mkdi
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On 20/04/09 09:27, Sean Miller wrote:
> pipe is | not \
>
> \ is the way you make a character literal. In other words you remove
> it from the parsing and have it interpreted as the character it is.
>
> Like "I'm going slightly \"mad\""... ;-)
And
pipe is | not \
\ is the way you make a character literal. In other words you remove
it from the parsing and have it interpreted as the character it is.
Like "I'm going slightly \"mad\""... ;-)
Best,
Sean
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>Are you doing this to avoid the mkdir if the directory you are creating
>already exists? If so, then the is an option -p which means it is not an
>error if the directory already exists. It also creates parent
>directories as needed, so:
>
> mkdir -p $newPath/Sound/MP3
> mkdir -o $newpa
Cornelius,
Cornelius Mostert wrote:
> Hallo
>
> I wrote my first Bash script!
> However I am struggling to find a way to test if 2 paths are the same:
> 1. I use a for loop to run through a set of folders in a path (lets
> say /home/myFiles/)
> 2. Now Test if the File Extension is = "mpg"
> 2.1.
2009/4/17 Cornelius Mostert :
> Hallo
>
> I wrote my first Bash script!
> However I am struggling to find a way to test if 2 paths are the same:
> 1. I use a for loop to run through a set of folders in a path (lets
> say /home/myFiles/)
> 2. Now Test if the File Extension is = "mpg"
> 2.1. If true
Hallo
I wrote my first Bash script!
However I am struggling to find a way to test if 2 paths are the same:
1. I use a for loop to run through a set of folders in a path (lets
say /home/myFiles/)
2. Now Test if the File Extension is = "mpg"
2.1. If true then I would like to know if the path of the
