Path question

[R C]

Hi Phil,

I was a little late reading the posts, but when it works it works.


just in case you were curious:

it takes '3' lines, but can wrie it as a one liner;

The first command line option, index 0 is the "command" it is executed 
with;  argv[0] it always exists

in python: |sys.argv[0]|

|then, get the "directory name" from it; the basename  in python: 
|||os.path.||basename|(/path/)|

|for example (basename('/my/path/to/script.py") would be "|||/my/path/to"||

|then change to that directory:  chdir;  in python : |||os.chdir()||

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||so at the beginning of your python script a line like:||

||||os.chdir(||||||||||os.path.||basename|(//||||||||||/|sys.argv[0]|/)|);||||

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On 10/18/20 11:26 PM, Phil wrote:
> On 19/10/20 1:39 pm, R C wrote:
>> might be a little late, but just saw this.
>>
>>
>> Why don't you set the working/current directory in your script?
>
> Thanks Ron for you suggestion. After a good night's sleep I had solved 
> the problem with a simple bash script.
>
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