[PD] [shell] on OSX...

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Derek Holzer wrote:
> Hi IOhannes,
> 
> thanks for the clarifications. I understand now why [shell] doesn't stay 
> in "/home/derek" between commands.
> 
> I'm not so good at shell scripts, so bear with me for a second....
> 
> What I'd like to do is pass variables.... so, for example:
> 
> cd /home/derek && mkdir test_$1

in this complicated example i would suggest to run
"mkdir /home/derek/test_$1" :-)

> 
> --where $1 is a number created by PD and sent to the shell script. The 
> dir name could be constructed by [nsprint], for example, as it may have 
> other variable as well. The shell script would only need a single 
> variable to receive the constructed dir name.
> 
> Does that make sense? Is this easy to do?
> 

if it get's more complicated just do it like this

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/derek
mkdir test_$1

and call your script with [/path/to/myscript.sh $1(

mfga.sdr
IOhannes