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I am trying to find the permissions of the directories in the $PATH variable. I am trying to use the following: ls -ld `echo $PATH | sed "s/:/ /g"' but ...
  1. 08-31-2010 #1
    rayj00
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    I am trying to find the permissions of the directories in the $PATH variable.

    I am trying to use the following:

    ls -ld `echo $PATH | sed "s/:/ /g"' but I get the following:

    ls: echo $PATH | sed "s/:/ /g": No such file or directory

    Ideas?

    Thanks,
    Ray

    PS: CentOS 5.5
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  2. 09-02-2010 #2
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    You need to terminate the `echo...` part with a back-quote, not a forward quote. IE:
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    ls -ld `echo $PATH | sed "s/:/ /g"`
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