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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Include libexec directory for script when run Post 302868327 by KevinSjoberg on Sunday 27th of October 2013 07:01:36 AM
Old 10-27-2013
Include libexec directory for script when run
Hi everyone!

This is my first post, so bear with me.

I have this script, vpm, which make use of the libexec directory for commands intended to be run by the bin/vpm binary. I want to add the libexec directory to $PATH when running the vpm binary. I don't want the script itself to try figure out where the path is, so I want to specify the path during installation.

Currently the binary have this line export PATH="%VPM_LIBEXECDIR%:$PATH". When I install the script I just replace "%VPM_LIBEXECDIR%" with the actual path.

This works, but it's problematic when I develop locally because then I just want to run the script directly by going to the directory and run ./bin/vpm.

How does people usually solve this problem?
 

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SMRSH(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  SMRSH(8)

NAME

       smrsh - restricted shell for sendmail

SYNOPSIS

       smrsh -c command

DESCRIPTION

       The smrsh program is intended as a replacement for sh for use in the ``prog'' mailer in sendmail(8) configuration files.  It sharply limits
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       Briefly, smrsh limits programs to be in a single directory, by default /usr/libexec/sm.bin, allowing the system administrator to choose the
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