Hi Doug, You're pretty close; just get rid of the second dollar sign. Your example should look like: program --directory $HOME/test William On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:18:25PM +0000, Doug Lawlor wrote: > Hello list, I used to know how to do this but can't think of it at the > moment. How does one go about including the output of an environment > variable in a command line? I thought it was something like the following > command line example. > 'program --directory $HOME$/test' where $HOME$ is the variable I want to > insert. When I try this the program complains it can not find the > directory. > > Any help on this would be appreciated. > > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
