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Colin P. McCabe commented on KAFKA-4566: ---------------------------------------- bq. I know this is a bit more than intended than the original JIRA, but have you thought about wrapping these functions into a single CLI, where these kinds of reusable methods/tasks would all be in one place? We have talked about creating a monocommand in the past. As you said, though, it's a much bigger scope than this jira > Can't Symlink to Kafka bins > --------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-4566 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4566 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: tools > Affects Versions: 0.10.1.1 > Reporter: Stephane Maarek > Assignee: Akhilesh Naidu > Labels: newbie > > in the kafka consumer for example, the last line is : > https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh#L21 > {code} > exec $(dirname $0)/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer "$@" > {code} > if I create a symlink using > {code} > ln -s > {code} > it doesn't resolve the right directory name because of $(dirname $0) > I believe the right way is to do: > {code} > "$(dirname "$(readlink -e "$0")")" > {code} > > Any thoughts on that before I do a PR? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)