I am running Rebol on Debian Stable Linux and I have put rebol executable in /usr/local/bin. Then I have created following script file and also kept it in /usr/local/bin:
#! /usr/local/bin/rebol
REBOL []
print what-dir
quit
However, when I run this script from any directory, it only reports "/usr/local/bin/" and not current working directory. I want to get current working directory to perform operations from code.
Following code, using Linux shell command pwd (print working directory) also reports the same:
print call "pwd"
How can this problem be solved?
You can find your own directory where you are in system/options/path and if you want it to be your current working directory and what-dir to report your own directory as current directory, you have to add this line
system/script/path: system/options/path
or
change-dir system/options/path
before calling what-dir.
Even call "pwd" uses and shows now your own as current directory under Linux
I agree, this behaviour is quite unintuitive.
I came across the same situation a while ago, and I kept on making the same mistake over and over... I eventually placed that change-dir system/options/path in a more general routines script, which is loaded from my ~/.rebol/view/user.r.
Mind you though, one could also put that statement within the user.r.
