Re: [Nmh-workers] Getting the location of the of the nmh executables from a script

[hymie]

The problem, I meant to add to my email but forgot, is that this below
script will (well, should) find itself first.  You have to teach the
script to recognize itself and go for the next match.  Again, not sure
how to do that off the top of my head.  I'm pretty sure $0 conatins the
name of the script as it was invoked, and not necessarily its full proper
path.

--hymie!    http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie    address@hidden

address@hidden writes:
>#!/bin/sh
>
>P=$PATH
>
>while [ "x$P" != "x" ]
>do
>  D=`echo $P | cut -d: -f1`
>  if [ -f $D/scan ]
>  then
>    echo "found $D/scan"
>    exit 0
>  fi
>  P=`echo $P | cut -s -d: -f2-`
>done
>
>echo "did not find scan"
>exit 1
>
>
>
>address@hidden writes:
>>How, from a script, can I get the location of the nmh executables. I don't
>>mean the location of the "fancy" executables that `mhparam libexecdir`
>>gets me, but the location of the "user" executables, like scan.
>>Yes, I know, it will be in $PATH, but I want to make sure that I get
>>the right component of $PATH.