That was a first stab at it :-)-O
When I have a moment I'll do it right :-)-O
greetings, el
On 06/02/2019 09:53, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 13:49:31 -0500
> Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:35:55PM +0200, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>>> Scott,
>>>
>>> this is very helpful for my alias file on the Mac.
>>>
>>> function lyxconfigure
>>> {
>>> pushd ~/
>>> python -tt
>>> "/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py" popd
>>> }
>>
>> Nice. Thanks for sharing I actually never saw that trick for saving
>> the directory in a bash function (I've only used pushd and popd
>> interactively). I am used to saving "$(pwd)" to a variable and then
>> "cd" back to it. I like your trick instead.
>
> Beware that pushd and popd are bash-only, and do not appear in dash or
> any /bin/sh one should be using for shellscripts. I'm of the opinion,
> especially after the Heartbleed fiasco, that bash is just too big an
> attack surface to use for shellscripts.
>
> In more lightweight shells, it's done more like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> orgdir=`pwd`
> cd /home/you/application/directory
> ./my_special_application arg1 arg2 arg3
> cd $orgdir
>
> SteveT
>
