I’m making a C program where I need to get the directory that the program is started from. This program is written for UNIX computers. I’ve been looking at opendir() and telldir(), but telldir() returns a off_t (long int), so it really doesn’t help me. How can I get the current path in a string … Read more
I run a python shell from crontab every minute: * * * * * /home/udi/foo/bar.py /home/udi/foo has some necessary subdirectories, like /home/udi/foo/log and /home/udi/foo/config, which /home/udi/foo/bar.py refers to. The problem is that crontab runs the script from a different working directory, so trying to open ./log/bar.log fails. Is there a nice way to tell the … Read more
This question already has answers here: How do I run a program with a different working directory from current, from Linux shell? (11 answers) Closed 7 years ago. I know I can use cd command to change my working directory in bash. But if I do this command: cd SOME_PATH && run_some_command Then the working … Read more
I have a several Makefiles in app specific directories like this: /project1/apps/app_typeA/Makefile /project1/apps/app_typeB/Makefile /project1/apps/app_typeC/Makefile Each Makefile includes a .inc file in this path one level up: /project1/apps/app_rules.inc Inside app_rules.inc I’m setting the destination of where I want the binaries to be placed when built. I want all binaries to be in their respective app_type path: … Read more
Is there a platform-agnostic and filesystem-agnostic method to obtain the full path of the directory from where a program is running using C/C++? Not to be confused with the current working directory. (Please don’t suggest libraries unless they’re standard ones like clib or STL.) (If there’s no platform/filesystem-agnostic method, suggestions that work in Windows and … Read more
I’m running Ruby on Windows though I don’t know if that should make a difference. All I want to do is get the current working directory’s absolute path. Is this possible from irb? Apparently from a script it’s possible using File.expand_path(__FILE__) But from irb I tried the following and got a “Permission denied” error: File.new(Dir.new(“.”).path).expand … Read more
Firstly, I saw this topic but I couldn’t understand that. Question : There is a batch file in D:\path\to\file.bat with following content : echo %cd% pause Output is : C:\ It must be D:\path\to What am I doing wrong? 4 Answers 4
Is there a different way, other than process.cwd(), to get the pathname of the current project’s root-directory. Does Node implement something like ruby’s property, Rails.root,. I’m looking for something that is constant, and reliable. 32 Answers 32 There are many ways to approach this, each with their own pros and cons: require.main.filename From http://nodejs.org/api/modules.html: When … Read more
This question already has answers here: Equivalent of shell ‘cd’ command to change the working directory? (14 answers) Closed 3 years ago. How to set the current working directory in Python? 5 s 5 Try os.chdir os.chdir(path) Change the current working directory to path. Availability: Unix, Windows.
