Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:27:28 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: making shell script run in its own directory Message-ID: <20000702222728.27FC416F@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 2000 15:04:58 PDT." <20000702150458.C66917@manatee.mammalia.org>
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[ cd in a shell script so its cwd is the script directory ] } > > Though generally I consider this kind of thing bad practice. } > } > It works! Can yourself on that last point? } ^^^^^^^^ } Oops, I meant to say "Can you explain yourself on that last point?" In general, a shell script shouldn't behave differently just because someone moves it or makes a link to it that's in a different directory. There are circumstances where making a script work that way is the least of the available evils, I suppose. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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