Re: shell script location

[RC Crozier]

Quoting Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> on Tue, 8 Jan  
2013 12:35:44 -0500:

> On 8 January 2013 11:09, Richard Crozier <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm trying out running an octave script as an executeable program
> > (http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/textbooks/octave/octave_3.html#SEC39)
> >
> > is there any way for octave running this way to get the location of
> > the running script? I want it to be able to locate other function
> > files from the script location (actually I just want to cd to the
> > script location, knowing the other function files are located there
> > too), but mfilename() returns an empty string. I'm guession this is
> > because this is not actually treated as a script file, but as a
> > series of commands to the interpreter.
>
> WFM, what OS are you using and what Octave version?
>
>     address@hidden:~$ ./lol.m
>     ans = lol
>     ans = /home/jordi/lol
>     ans = /home/jordi/lol.m
>
>     address@hidden:~$ cat lol.m
>     #!/usr/local/bin/octave -q
>     mfilename
>     mfilename fullpath
>     mfilename fullpathext
>
> - Jordi G. H.

Actually your script worked fine for me. Turns out I was asking the  
wrong question, the real problem is finding the location of the file  
using 'which', not getting it's name:

bash-4.1$ cat ./temp/lol.m
#! /home/s0237326/bin/share/bin/octave -qf

which(mfilename)
whos mfilename
disp(which(mfilename))
bash-4.1$ ./temp/lol.m

bash-4.1$


I'm using Scientific Linux 6.something and Octave 3.6.2 compiled and  
installed locally from the official release sources.

Richard




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