[ubuntu-uk] Bash and Path checks

[Cornelius Mostert]

Thanx but I am familiar with / in Linux and \ in windows... i saw a
script use \ as i did and naturally I assumes (incorrectly though)
that it is also | (pipe) but backward pipe like <, come to think of it
the path the person wanted to append to the variable a path that
contained a space in it so that is why he used the \ to make the
script use the space in the path and not think that it is a second
parameter...

UMmmm Note to self and others try not to use spaces in file paths :-)
but then again you guys know that ...
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>>> will do what you want without the need to test.
>>> (BTW, it's forward slashes / in Linux, not backslahes!)
>>> Of course, I may have misunderstood what you are trying to achieve.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tony.
>>
>> Thanx I will try the -p option.
>> As I understand it the \ is to pipe whatever onto what is infront of
>> the \ so it reads Get the Variable and Pipe the following onto it ...
>
> You were using it as a separator in a path to separate the various
> directory names. In Linux/Unix that should be a forward slash (/).
> Windows uses the backslash (\) for such purposes.
>
> As others have pointed out, pipes are something else.
>
>> You have understood my question...
>
> Oh good! I was worried I had missed something!