On 8 Jun 2010, at 07:25, Graham Cox wrote: > On 08/06/2010, at 4:16 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote: > >> b) In a working OS X system, the unix executables will always be where >> they're supposed to be (ie: /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, etc). > > Thanks Stephen, so given the four choices I looked at each and find zip in > /usr/bin > > The question is can I be sure it's there on every system, no matter how the > user is logged in? i.e. can I hard-code the path?
Yes. *Don't* as someone else suggested use the "which" (or /usr/bin/env, which would be better) to locate it, because if you do that you might pick up a version of zip that you haven't tested against (or some other program entirely that happens to have installed an executable called "zip"). Hard-coding the path is the right thing to do. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
