Re: Result of Finder's POSIX path of (home as text) ends in slash?
Re: Result of Finder's POSIX path of (home as text) ends in slash?
- Subject: Re: Result of Finder's POSIX path of (home as text) ends in slash?
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:56:05 -0700
At 11:47 -0800 11/24/08, Jerry Krinock wrote:
On 2008 Nov, 24, at 10:48, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Is it possible that the customer's home directory is a symbolic link
or alias? Those confuse the heck out of the Finder OMM.
Thanks, Mark. Probably you're correct. He just told me that he's a
systems engineer in an IT department and may have different "paths,
add-ons, extensions, environment, etc."
He may also be a POSIX savvy guy too.
If you "echo $HOME" with a do shell script you will NOT get a
trailing slash. As far as I know nobody in the UNIX world leaves the
trailing slash except for things like scp commands pointing to a
destination directory which need to told if the last name is a
directory or a file to be replaced.
Classic Apple needed a trailing colon for a lot of things in MPW.
Variables representing directories were generally prepared including
the colon.
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