Why is my cd command not working?
 

I am on an AIX computer ver 5.3.

I am trying to write a script and I get to the part where I want the script to cd to another directory. Why does this command not work?

#!/bin/bash
echo 'What directory are we in? '
pwd
echo 'What directory do you wish to check: ?'
read $DIRPATH
cd $DIRPATH
pwd #this command prints out the current directory that i am in not where the CD commmand should put me?

cajuchief

Leave out the "$" sign there. What is happening is that the shell is substituting the current value (NULL) of DIRPATH there and running the read command with no argument, and whatever you typed in gets assigned to the variable REPLY.

Thank you great help
 

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP! IT WORKED ! :)


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cajunchief

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