Hi again, I saw you committed this - thanks a lot :) Kind regards, Ralf On Sunday 06 November 2011 22:23:03 Dimitar Popov wrote:

Am Sonntag, 6. November 2011, 21:26:03 schrieb Ralf Jung:

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Hi,

this will break if the link is absolute, since it will still prepend the $(dirname "$FILE") to the value we got from readlink. So if I call /home/r/bin/basexhttp, which is a link to /home/r/bin/basex/bin/basexhttp, it will set FILE to /home/r/bin//home/r/bin/basex/bin/basexhttp.

Yes, I saw that, but a second after I sent the email :)

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Also, I wonder why you are splitting $SOURCE into basename and dirname, just to concat it again?

Yep, that was not necessary. Here is a version, which I hope works correctly:

FILE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" while [ -h "$FILE" ] ; do SOURCE="$(readlink "$FILE")" FILE="$( cd -P "$(dirname "$FILE")" && \ cd -P "$(dirname "$SOURCE")" && pwd )/$(basename "$SOURCE")" done BASEX_DIR="$( cd -P "$(dirname $FILE)" && pwd )"

Dimitar