Get WordShell conf file location

[wpnetnz Participant]

Hi,

I’m doing some BASH scripting with WordShell, I want a way to get the config file path for WordShell, but this doesn’t work:

wordshell –debug –workdir
ABORT: ERROR: Unknown option: –workdir
DEBUG: WordShell internal abort code: 40

What’s the easiest way to get the working directory path (~/.wordshell) and conf file (~/.wordshell/rc)?

Thanks.

[WordShell.Net Keymaster]

Hi,

It’s configured in the configuration section at the top of the wordshell script. Unless it’s been changed, it detaults to $HOME/.wordshell, and the configuration file to $HOME/.wordshell/rc.

David

[wpnetnz Participant]

Hi,

Thanks, I get that, but what I wanted to do was write get the wordir dynamically from wordshell something like:

WORKING_DIR=”$(wordshell –workdir –debug)/rc”

CONFIG_FILE=”${WORKING_DIR}/rc”

because I can’t be sure my script will “know” where is conf file is.

[WordShell.Net Keymaster]

Hi,

I’m not sure I see the point of this – in the 4-ish years of WordShell, the default configuration directory has never been anything other than $HOME/.wordshell, and I doubt it’ll change. (And it’s user-configurable anyway, so you’d know if you changed it for your setup). So, this option would just ultimately be a time-consuming way of doing “echo $HOME/.wordshell”.

David

[wpnetnz Participant]

OK, I’ll use $HOME/.wordshell

Thanks for your help.

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