bash: a pipe bodge, is there a better way ?

[David selby <debian@pusspaws.net>]

I have a pipe of commands ....

echo $scanhtml | csplit -f index -q - /lock/ {*}

I want the output to go to $tempdir/websync/ ... Is there a more elegant 
way than my present solution of ..

cd $tempdir/websync
echo $scanhtml | csplit -f index -q - /lock/ {*}

This seems a bit of a bodge and I am sure there is a better way..

Dave

PS I used echo $scanhtml | because to use this directly in csplit 
seletes the file if a split is done !