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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting absolute path for a script ran with relative path Post 302410970 by rss67 on Wednesday 7th of April 2010 09:48:11 AM
Old 04-07-2010
hi grepFruit,
thanks for replying, but i want the script to run on all machines, so i dont think so i'll be able to use "readlink" (i found that its not working on SunOS 5.10).


---------- Post updated at 07:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:54 PM ----------

hi ygemici,
thnx for replying,
with the suggestion provided i am able to get absolute script path when i run script from the directoy where it is situated i.e. using ./test.sh.
# cat test.sh
currentpath="`pwd`/"
currentscript=`echo $0 | sed 's/^[./]*//'`
echo "currentscript : $currentscript"
echo "script name: $currentpath$currentscript"

# ./test.sh
currentscript : test.sh
script name: /my/test/dir/test.sh
but my real concern is in situation where i run script using ../ as in following case
# pwd
/my/test1
bash-3.00# ../test/dir/test.sh
currentscript : test/dir/test.sh
script name: /my/test1/test/dir/test.sh
bash-3.00#
scriptname should have been "/my/test/dir/test.sh"
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

openscad-testrun

OPENSCAD-TESTRUN(1)					      General Commands Manual					       OPENSCAD-TESTRUN(1)

NAME

       openscad-testrun - set up and run the OpenSCAD test suite

SYNOPSIS

       openscad-testrun [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the openscad-testrun command.

       openscad-testrun  is  a script that sets up a directory in which the OpenSCAD test suite (implemented in ctest) can be run by creating sym-
       links to the system locations of the input data, and runs it. The created directory is not removed, but will contain the  test  results	in
       addition to the symlinks.

       It  is  required  as  the test suite in its original form expects all the test input and output data in relative locations, and the typical
       user has no write access to where the data resides. Future changes to the test suite might make it more flexible,  removing  the  need  for
       this script.

OPTIONS

       -d directory, --directory directory
	      Set  up  the  tests  in  a  directory  called directory. By default, this is generated from the current date and time like openscad-
	      test-2012-02-15_13:37.

       -n, --dry-run
	      Do not run the test suite, just set it up.

       All additional arguments are passed on to ctest.

AUTHOR

       The OpenSCAD test suite was written by Clifford Wolf, Marius Kintel, and others. The openscad-testrun script was written by chrysn.

       This manual page was written by chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

								    2012-02-16						       OPENSCAD-TESTRUN(1)
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