bash xmb.mepath declare -- mef="/data/data/com.termux/files/home/xmb.mepath" declare -- med="/data/data/com.termux/files/home"
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024, 10:05 PM Will Allan <billyz...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Not sure how common but this is what makes sense. Or name sourceables
> > foo.sh, bar.sh and executables foo, bar so they don't clash and source
> with
> > `${BASH_SOURCE%/*}' prepended to PATH and it'll work fine.
> >
> > This feature request sounded promising at first, it feels like
> > bike-shedding now.
>
> I think this is exactly why this feature is necessary. Unless I am
> misunderstanding, simply prepending `${BASH_SOURCE%/*}' to a sourced path
> will not work in all cases. For example, when executing the main script
> directly inside the script directory (e.g. `bash main.sh`) you would end up
> with an invalid path (e.g. main.sh/../lib/foo.sh).
>
> To solve such a seemingly simple problem when first introduced to Bash, I
> turned to StackOverflow. Note this question has hundreds of answers of
> varying complexity with thousands of up and downvotes. Yikes!
>
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59895/how-do-i-get-the-directory-where-a-bash-script-is-located-from-within-the-script
>
> Since I find the accepted answer to be overly complex for my needs, I
> usually just do this:
>
> declare -r SCRIPT_DIR="$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
> source -- "${SCRIPT_DIR}/../lib/foo.sh"
> source -- "${SCRIPT_DIR}/../lib/bar.sh"
> ...
>
> But, I still don’t like it. I have to start off each script with a slow
> command substitution (subshell) which introduces a variable that I don’t
> really want, but it’s too slow to do this repeatedly:
>
> source -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../lib/foo.sh"
> source -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../lib/foo.sh"
> ...
>
> I would love to be able to do this for efficiency and readability (see
> below). This would prevent future users from having to sift through
> hundreds of faulty StackOverflow answers like I did.
>
> source -- "${BASH_SOURCE_PATH}/../lib/foo.sh"
> source -- "${BASH_SOURCE_PATH}/../lib/bar.sh"
> ...
>
> -Will
>
>
>
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