[m-users.] Path independence?

Peter Wang novalazy at gmail.com
Sat Jul 27 11:42:38 AEST 2013


On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 04:14:39 +1000 (EST), Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Mark Green wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your reply. Is there a particular reason why it's done this
> > way? Eg, why it couldn't be changed to `dirname $0` on bash or %~dp0
> > in Windows to calculate the path relative to where the mmc/mercury
> > script is running from?
> 
> I think that the paths involved need to absolute, which `dirname $0`
> won't necessarily be.  Using %~dp0 to caculate the paths in a batch file
> should be fine though.

We can prepend $PWD if necessary (falling back to `pwd`).
Would that do it?

Peter



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