Re: [opensuse] bash pipe

2008/9/29 drek <drek@drek.nl>:

Hello,

In a script I want to know in which directory I am, but I don't want to know the whole path. I thought it was easy, but I got an errormessage:

drek@laptop:~> pwd | basename basename: missing operand Try `basename --help' for more information.

I expected to get the output from pwd ( /home/drek/ ) piped to basename. So I expected to get "drek" as the final result. But unfortunately....

Anyone with an explanation?

Thanks, André

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