Re: Get current working directory
Re: Get current working directory
- Subject: Re: Get current working directory
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:42:16 -0400
On 10/2/05, Gary (Lists) <email@hidden> wrote:
> "Mark J. Reed" wrote:
>
> > On 10/2/05, Gary (Lists) <email@hidden> wrote:
> >> Well, you must mean "in the shell, via AppleScript" because AS does not have
> >> "working directories".
> >
> > C'est impossible. Every single process that ever runs in OS X has a
> > current working directory defined at all times. AppleScript may not
> > provide any means to find out what that is for the AS interpreter
> > process, but that doesn't change the fact that it's there.
>
> Blah. Blah. Not the point. Not what I was saying. Not related to what the OP
> was asking.
I don't think that tone was called for . . .
> AppleScript has no "current working directory" concept in the language,
> other than, maybe, a similar construct in 'path to', or when passing a
> parameter to a 'choose application/file/folder' as a starting point.
"current working directory" is an OS concept, not a programming
language concept. I stipulated that AS may not provide a means to get
at it . . .
> The user asked how to use 'do shell script' to get the path to the working
> directory. That implies, "in the shell", not in AppleScript.
The OP asked how to get the path to the working directory from AS, and
indicated that they had *tried* to do so by using do shell script, but
that doesn't imply that they were only interested in shellscript
solutions.
I tried to sidestep the terminology issues and come at the question
from a pragmatic direction: do relative paths work in AS? If so, what
are they interpreted as relative to?
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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