On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:40:54PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > >untested, but should work, modulu error handling: > > > >APP=`which app` > >DIR=`dirname $APP` > >cd $DIR && echo $DIR && $APP > > > >etc > > I thoough the standard way to get APP in the context of the snippet > above is to use $0, which as far as I remember is what Sun's java > startup scripts use (no immediate access to verify).
$0 is equivalent to argv[0] in C, IIRC. I was aiming for something more generic, i.e. $ run-in-app-dir some_app or $ run-my-app-in-app-dir Where the right thing to use would be $1 or APP=..., respectively. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://www.livejournal.com/~mulix "the nucleus of linux oscillates my world" - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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