[m-users.] Path independence?

[Julien Fischer]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Peter Wang wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:35:42 +1000 (EST), Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 27 Jul 2013, Peter Wang wrote:
>>>
>>> We can prepend $PWD if necessary (falling back to `pwd`).
>>> Would that do it?
>>
>> That would just give you the directory in which invoke mmc, not the
>> directory in which mmc resides.
>
> Er, I meant something like this:
>
>    dir=${0%/*}
>    case "$dir" in
>        /*) ;;
>        *) dir="$PWD/$dir" ;;
>    esac

Ah, that's what you meant by "if necessary" ;-)  The above should
certainly be ok on Linux and Mac OS X.  I'm not sure the various
Windows variants.  (I don't have a Windows machine about to check
just at the moment.)

Cheers,
Julien