Sadly, this doesn't seem to work:
9:26am albini:SVMseq/ cat Foo.hs
module Main where
import System.Environment
main = getEnv "_" >>= putStrLn
9:27am albini:SVMseq/ ghc Foo.hs -o foo
9:27am albini:SVMseq/ ./foo
Fail: does not exist
Action: getEnv
Reason: no environment variable
File: _
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Christopher Milton wrote:
> The environmental var "_" in $ENV{"_"} (pardon my Perlish) holds
> the full path name of the command currently executing (itself), at
> least on RedHat Linux and HP-UX, so you should be able to use
> getEnv... I think...
>
> --- Hal Daume III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > is there a function, related to getProgName, which returns the (absolute)
> > path to the current program?
> >
> > basically, i want to be able to read a file which i know will be in the
> > same directory as the current program, but not necessarily in the same
> > directory that we're running it from.
>
>
> =====
> Christopher Milton
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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