Hope the title is close enough; didn't quite know how to put this...
OK.
We have a hypothetical script, script.a, with one simplistic line:
Now script.b has a bit more going for it; and does file moves, copies, and renames, calling all the targets with respect to itself.
Manually running script.b from a command prompt at its dir is no problem; all moves, copies, and renames are executed on the targets without issue.
OTOH, running script.b from script.a changes the effective recursion level for script.b to that of script.a; and nothing executes properly...
So, I guess this is a rock-bottom basic question, but the answer eludes me: How do we create a script.a which calls script.b without changing its recursion level?
All paths in the hypothetical script.b are relative; ie,
script.a simply calls script.b:
When running script.b directly, the relative path to file.xxx is correct.
When launching script.b via script.a, the relative path to file.xxx is not correct; reflecting the placement of script.a on the tree.
I mean like:
However, MadeInGermany's post takes care of this issue too.
You could also switch/change to absolute paths too.
Or use a variable as 'basedir', to wich you change before executing the relative paths.
Hi,
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#set -x
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