[LUAU] Windows shortcut equivalent in Linux

[Thomas Ryan Gordon Sr]

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Vikram Khurana wrote:

| The reason I can't do cd ~ is because it may or may not be in the
| home directory. Here is why. The way I intend to distribute this
| program is by zipping up the directory tree which looks like
|
| /Parse/Linux/<Linux executable> /Parse/Windows/<Windows executable>
|  /Parse/123.dat
|
| Now the user could save this anywhere they want. Now in Win I can
| tell people to create a shortcut to /<some
| directory>/Parse/Windows/<Windows executable> & place it in any
| folder they want. The 123.dat file is read relative to the
| executables.
|
| How do I do the same in Linux?
|
| Hope I explained it better this time...
|
technically doing the same would probably make this a gnome/kde issue
as their launchers are most like a windows shortcut.  tell the linux
user to make a launcher for the file.  at any rate, set the absolute
path of the file in your script, $0 will give you the relation between
the executable and the path it's being executed from.  heres an
example, bear in mind that i don't know or like perl...

/home/memeyou/Parse/Linux/Parse.ui:

#!/usr/bin/perl
if ($0 =~ /^(.*[\/]).*$/) {
~  my($path) = $1."../";
~  print "my path is \"$path\"! xyz.dat must be in
\"$path"."xyz.dat\"!\n";
}

you can run this from any launcher/shortcut and it knows where xyz.dat
is.  it should also work for windows and linux.

Tom



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