On date Saturday 2006-11-25 12:30:53 -0500, William Case, wrote: > Hi; > > I know there is a way or a command or something, which can be used to > insert the current path into a terminal command. But, I forget and > can't find it again. > > e.g. Using the file browser I find a file I am looking for, > say /usr/applicationfile/foo. Now in the gterminal (open at the same > time) I want to $ cat 'foundfile/foo'. How do I automatically > insert /usr/applicationfile/foo > > Remind me how, please ?? Not sure about what you want. You may check the $PWD environment variable (Print Working Directory), or the pwd corresponding command, that return the current path. E.g.: $ cd ~/foo $ pwd /home/username/foo $ basename $PWD foo HTH Cheers -- Stefano Sabatini Linux user number 337176 (see http://li.count.org) _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
