jpath '~' or jpath '~/' may work even under windows but that depends on how do you interpret 'home'
Чт, 04 апр 2013, Ian Clark писал(а): > Thanks Raul, and Bob. > > Both work fine inside my app: > 2!:0 'echo ~' > 2!:5 'HOME' > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ~user is the unix shell convention for referring to the home directory > > of the user named 'user'. > > > > ~ by itself (or followed by a slash) is unix shell convention for > > referring to the current user's home directory. > > > > Note however that these only work in contexts where shell wildcards > > are interpreted -- you could run a subshell from J if you wanted that: > > > > 2!:0 'echo ~' > > > > Another convention for referring to the current user's home directory > > is to refer to the environmental variable named HOME > > > > 2!:5 'HOME' > > > > Of course, both of these would fail on windows. > > > > FYI, > > > > -- > > Raul > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The pith's going soft here... > > > > > > How do I find the logged-on user's home directory on the Mac? > > > (I'm still using j602 for this.) > > > > > > Hitherto I've been using: jpath '~user' > > > ...but if I create a MacOS app, with its own embedded J, and dropped it > > > into /Applications (the proper place for it), then what jpath'~user' > > gives > > > me is: > > > /Applications/belcan.app/Contents/MacOS/user > > > > > > viz it can't see outside the "bundle". > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
