From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: how to get the absolute pathname of the current shell?
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 08:30:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <131206083020.ZM1054@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131206132751.GA6509@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr>
On Dec 6, 2:27pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
}
} I'd like to get an absolute pathname of the current shell, for
} interactive shells (i.e. scripts are not concerned), in a startup
} file (so that the current working directory has not changed).
As far as I can tell there is no portable way to do this. Even C
programs have to use different code depending on the OS.
} Currently I'm doing: ${$(whence -p ${0#-}):a}
}
} But this doesn't work when there are symbolic links
If the above is otherwise good enough, why not ${$(whence -p ${0#-}):A}
which uses realpath() when it is available? [See above about different
code depending on OS ...]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-06 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-06 13:27 Vincent Lefevre
2013-12-06 16:30 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2013-12-09 8:53 ` Vincent Lefevre
2013-12-09 9:31 ` Vincent Lefevre
2013-12-09 9:45 ` Vincent Lefevre
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