Re: small problem with BASH_SOURCE and PATH

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:02 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:24:46PM +0100, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
> > >> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/028
> > >>
> > >
> > > err from the page
> > >
> >
> > greg, consider overhaulting your whole page, or it gets marked as invalid
> > as the others by me
>
> It's a wiki.  It's publically writable.  Most of the pages on the wiki
> have multiple contributors.
>
> > > bash stup ; cat stup
> > > stup: line 1: cd: stup/: Not a directory
> > > /root
> > > cd "${BASH_SOURCE%/*}/"
> > > pwd
>
> Haven't we already covered this?  You're using BASH_SOURCE and assuming
> what will be in it conforms to a certain pattern.  And then you're calling
> the script with "bash stup" which means the content of BASH_SOURCE does
> *not* match the pattern you expected it to match.  It contains "stup"
> rather than "./stup".
>
yea its from your page tho, u didnt cover the noslashinside case


> Fix your own bugs.
>
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