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copied!<p>To do literally what you said, you could try:</p> <pre><code>ls > `pwd`.txt </code></pre> <p>which will use the full pathname, which should be fine. Note that if you do this in your home directory, which might be in /home/hoboben, you will be trying the create /home/hoboben.txt, a text file in the directory above.</p> <p>Is this what you wanted?</p> <p>If you wanted the directory to contain a file named after it, you would get the basename of the current directory and append that with .txt to the pwd.</p> <p>Now, rather than use the pwd command... why not use the PWD environment variable?</p> <p>For example:</p> <pre><code>ls > $PWD.txt </code></pre> <p>or</p> <pre><code>ls > ${PWD}.txt </code></pre> <p>is probably what you were trying to remember with your second example.</p> <p>If you're in /home/hoboben and you want to create /home/hoboben/hoboben.txt, try:</p> <pre><code>ls > ${PWD}/${PWD##*/}.txt </code></pre> <p>If you do this, the file will contain its own name, so most often, you would remedy this in one of a few ways. You could redirect to somewhere else and move the file or name the file beginning with a dot to hide it from the ls command as long as you don't use the -a flag (and then optionally rename the resulting file).</p> <p>I write my own scripts to manage a directory hierarchy of music files and I use subdirectories named ".info", for example, to contain track data in some spare files (basically, I "hide" metadata this way). It works out okay because my needs are simple and my collection small.</p>

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