[GRASS-user] grass prompt default working directory

[Vincent Bain]

Thank you Nikos for your reply,

I let you read my previous message as an answer.
The thing is I mostly run grass in text mode.

Yours,
Vincent


Le mardi 26 février 2013 à 15:29 +0200, Nikos Alexandris a écrit :
> On Tuesday 26 of February 2013 14:13:02 Vincent Bain wrote:
> > Hello list,
> 
> Hi Vincent.
> 
> > when launching grass64, the working directory of the process (I mean the
> > grass prompt in the terminal window) is located at user's home (e.g pwd
> > command returns: /home/vincent). I did not find if this path was stored
> > in a Grass environment variable ?
> 
> You work in a linux-box, right? I think the GRASS-working-directory (if I can 
> name it like that as per the pwd command) it just remains there from where you 
> actually launching grass.
> 
> Try launching from a different directory.
> 
> > is it possible to change the default path ?
> 
> I think there is no GRASS_HOME variable! Not sure however -- maybe check here: 
> <http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/variables.html>.
> 
> > The point is I often need to cd to the current mapset directory, it
> > could be convenient to have the ability to set this default path at
> > grass startup in a given location/mapset.
> 
> Me too!
> 
> > Has anyone any advice/idea for this ?
> 
> It sounds easy to do!?  Something like using GRASS' existing environment 
> variables GISDBASE, LOCATION_NAME, MAPSET and instructing inside the GRASS 
> initialization (Python) script to navigate to this directory?
> 
> Don't know if this breaks anything... 
> Sorry, no time to test myself.
> 
> Best, Nikos
>