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Re: Substituting the value of an environment variable that is passed

Nick Landsberg

2004-08-23, 5:55 pm

Billy N. Patton wrote:
> Anil Venugopalan wrote:
>
>
>
> csh
> set path = $1;
>
> bash
> path=$1;
>
>

That's not what the OP requested.

Check out

man 1 dirname

for what you want.

NPL

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