I have been trying to figure this out for quite some time.

Say my current working directory is /home/ice/work

Heres what i have been trying to combine into one command:

then take output of that and redirect it to a bash variable such as
then this should happen
My plan is to be able to redirect the output of into a url for viewing in konqueror as konqueror can use a variable as a url.

I have tested it. The following happens.
Konqueror loads with the directory /home/ice/work
But obviosuly this is not useful because i can easily click on the big "home" button in konqueror, then click work.

My questoin would be useful if my current working directory was /use/share/doc/man/man1/foo
Then i could load konqueror with that directory automatically...

Thanks in advance

you can "pipe" the output of one command into the input of another with the | (pipe) character. you would do this with "pwd | konqueror". There is a fantastic guide to bash here.

Also, when assigning something to a variable, you do "VAR=pwd" (without a dollarsign). You only need the dollar sign when retrieving the variable e.g. "echo $VAR".

EDIT: on a US keyboard, the pipe character is normally above ENTER, and is on the same key as \ (backslash).

You can't use a pipe to assign a variable...try this:

VARIABLE=`pwd`

Those are not single quotes, but "backticks" (American keyboard---way left above the tab key)

I was just saying that you don't even need to assign a variable for this, you can just pipe it straight to konqueror.

Though my VAR=pwd was wrong, it should have been (as you said) VAR=`pwd`

Thanks alot Ynot Irucrem and pixellany.

It works now, you two saved me alot of stress

~EDIT~
This was my goal. I added this to my .bashrc

I was thinking about this the other day. I've improved it to:This is more efficient, as it allows konqueror to load directories with spaces in it. That was a problem last time.