"./" and "~/"?

#1 ./ = look in current working directory

IE:

./SomExec

would be expanded to the current working directory, that is if you are in the /var/opt/oracle directory and you did a

vi ./tnsnames.ora

it would be expanded to

vi /var/opt/oracle/tnsnames.ora



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~/ = look in your home directory

IE:

~/SomeExec

would be expanded to your home directory, so if your home dir is /home/joe and you did

~/SomeExec

it would be expanded to

/home/joe/SomeExec

~ can also be used infront of a valid user name to indicate that users home dir

IE

cd ~cm

would change your working dir to cm's home dir


you could combine the above like

ls ~cm/junk which would be expanded to

ls /home/cm/junk
giving that the home dir of cm is /home/cm


Regards,

Ron

#2 Yes, ./ is the current dir you're in, but the ~/ actually means MODNAME/, so it becomes e.g. "fps/" or "rw/" ...
If you'd like to use "exec()" in the console, you should use the "absolute" path, e.g.
exec("fps/server/scripts/game.cs");

#3 heheheh

confusing TGE with *nix again *sigh*
sorry if my previous post off base, I read it as a *nix type question and replied accordingly

#4 Ron

You're reply was actually correct if you replace "users home dir" with "Mod's Home Dir"

#5 Ron - No problem, thanks for the response! Thanks for helping me guys.

~ Sang

#6 What happens if exec() doesn't find the script its looking for? Does it produce and error or just ignore it, or search further somehow. Ive found a few examples in the RW system that don't seem to follow these rules. For examples:

c:\torque\example\rw\client\scripts\optionsDlg.cs has an exec("~/scripts/default.bind.cs"); call in it. By the rules Stefan describes (if I understand them right) this should point to:

c:\torque\example\rw\scripts\default.bind.cs

which doesn't exist. It's actually in teh same client/scripts dir as optionsDlg.cs

And

c:\torque\example\common\server\server.cs

calls ~/defaults.cs which would look in

c:\torque\example\common\defaults.cs

which doesn't exist.

#7 that is just because those two files dont exist... they must have gotten deleted somewhere down the line.

you will see warnings in the console about it.