Hi guys
I'm trying to move an empty directory to the $TRASH directory. Say the directory i have is ./hello/hello1/hello2 and i'm in hello2, and i want hello2 moved.
this code:
TRASH=$home/deleted
find "$TRASH/$1" -type d -exec rmdir { } \; 2>/dev/null
mv -f $1 $TRASH 2>/dev/null
works when the $TRASH directory is empty, but if hello2 is already there it won't move it. So using find i'm trying to delete hello2 from $TRASH, but it won't because it's looking for the value of $1 which is the absolute path of hello2 ie ./hello/hello1/hello2, which of course isn't there.
Does that make sense?
The question is: is there a way to get the current directory without the ./hello/hello1/ bit? And if so, how! Or if not is there another way i can get the same result?
Many thanks in advance
Oliver