[osgeo4w-dev] Re: cd before run

[Matt Wilkie]

Hi Andrea,

"cd /d xxx" is change directory and drive
"cd xxx" is change dir on current drive.

However I would use pushd instead of cd, it has the benefit of working 
with UNC paths as well (by automatically mapping to a free drive letter).

more info http://ss64.com/nt/pushd.html

If for some reason you need the drive/path of the batch file starting 
udig use %0, as follows:

   %~nx0 - the actual name of the batch file, regardless of calling 
method (some-batch.bat)
   %~dp0 - drive and path to the script (d:\scripts)
   %~dpnx0 - is the fully qualified path name of the script 
(d:\scripts\some-batch.bat)

from 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/357315/get-list-of-passed-arguments-in-windows-batch-script-bat/382312#382312

This is how the %OSGEO4W_ROOT% variable is set  (see osgeo4w.bat).


matt wilkie
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On 31/03/2011 8:09 AM, andrea antonello wrote:
> Ok, I already have a problem with this.
>
> It doesn't work if the folder from which the application is launched
> is different from C: (a user reported it).
> In that case the changedir command won't end into the right folder.
> So the idea would be to change it to:
>
> c:
> cd "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\udig-dev"
> @start /B "BeeGIS" "udig_internal.exe" --launcher.ini beegis.ini %*
>
> But in that case if someone installs on a disk different from c:, that
> would not work also.
>
> Is there a variable that tells me the disk in which the installation occurred?
> So that I could do:
>
> %DISK%:
> cd "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\udig-dev"
> @start /B "BeeGIS" "udig_internal.exe" --launcher.ini beegis.ini %*
>
>
> Any other idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrea
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:44 AM, andrea antonello
> <andrea.antonello at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi, for technical reasons I need to cd into the apps folder before
>> exeecuting the application.
>> I changed the startup script to do so as:
>> cd "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\udig-dev"
>> @start /B "BeeGIS" "udig_internal.exe" --launcher.ini beegis.ini %*
>>
>> it works. Just wondering if there is a more "windows" way to execute
>> an application from within a path.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrea
>>
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