[Gambas-user] File & Directory Functions: PWD, cd

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Just write:

Private sThePath As String = "/mnt/Data/videos"

And use that variable everywhere as path. That way it is easy to change
when needed.
DoSomething(sThePath &/ "file.ext")



Jussi


On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Lewis Balentine <lewis at ...3412...> wrote:
>
> >> spawns a new process (the shell) which changes its directory (using the
> cd built-in) to /another/directory and then dies. <<
> That is what I expected but I wanted to verify it to before I asked the
> question.
>
> >> If you want to change the CWD of your process nevertheless, I guess you
> can use Extern[1] and access the chdir() function in the C
> library. <<
> I suspect that might be a bit beyond my level of competence at this point.
>
> >> There is no concept of a current working directory in Gambas <<
> >> A cleaner solution is to use absolute paths throughout. <<
> That is tad inconvenient for what I am trying to do. I want to write a
> console based application to process a number of files in the directory
> from which the application is run with no concept of what that directory
> might be at design time. I was going to use the 'cd' command to change to a
> target directory for development/testing --- then comment it out afterwards.
>
> >> The CWD from process startup time is found in Application.Dir. <<
> I think that can be used as an alternative solution to my problem.
>
> Thank you Tobias.
>
> Lewis
>
>
>
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