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In article <140617@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, 946753@arniew.llnl.gov (Arnie Weinstein) writes:
>  I have a global variable named  ASCOM.
>  ASCOM=/home/aisserver1/people/946753
>   The following is the script which reads from standard input the variable
> dirnam.  Then it test to see if the the contents of dirnam is a directory.  If I
> enter the full file name manually it works fine, however if I use $ASCOM it does
> not work.  Instead of substituting the value of $dirname it uses $ASCOM.  If the
> value of dirnam comes from an input parameter $1 it evalutes the content of $1
> proprely.  How do I get dirnam to contain the value of $ASCOM not to contain the
> charaters '$ASCOM'   ????? 
> 
> *********************************************************************************
>  read  dirnam
>  if [[ -d $dirnam ]]
>       then 
>       print $dirnam' to be scanned'
>    else
>       print $dirnam' not found'
>    fi
> *********************************************************************************
> 
>  I have tried:
>  read  "dirnam"
> 
>  dirn=$echo($dirnam)
>  if [[ -d $dirn ]]
> 
>  Thankyou for any help.  Seriously confused and stupified
>                          Arnold Weinstein
>                          Computer Scientist
>                          L.L.N.L


Don't feel bad, you're real close.  What you're missing is the eval. 
Add this line in after the read dirnam
dirnam=`eval echo $dirnam`

Ric Ginsberg
eginsber@oracle.com