Re: here?

[Søren Hauberg]

Okay, I don't think this is quite what you're asking for, but it might 
be helpful anyway (untested code, so beware)

function d = here(function_name)
  d = fileparts(which(function_name));
endfunction

After defining this function you should be able to do something like this:

cd(here("image"))

which will take you to the directory where the "image" function exists.

Søren

Vic Norton skrev:
> Can anyone tell me how to change the working directory to where you are?
>
> For example it would be nice to have a "here" function that would return the 
> path of the directory in which a script resides. Then
>    thisdir = here();
>    cd thisdir;
> would do just what I want.
>
> I do this kind of thing all the time in Perl with the two lines
>    use FindBin qw($Bin);
>    chdir $Bin;
> I'd like to be able to do it in Octave.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions you might have.  - Vic
>
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