Did you mean put a symlink /usr/bin/ijconsole to j installation under the
user's home folder?
eg. sudo ln -s $HOME/j9.4/bin/jconsole /usr/bin/ijconsole





On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 1:29 AM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The recent change in directory naming from j903 to j9.4 introduces an
> interesting issue for shell scripts on unix-like systems.
>
> In J shell scripts, this works:
>
> #!/home/username/j903/bin/jconsole
>
> However, this fails with a spelling error:
>
> #!/home/username/j9.4/bin/jconsole
>
> Or, on OSX, the shebang line is different, but the spelling error remains:
>
> #!/Applications/j9.4/bin/jconsole
>
> That said, there's some other issues here, related to portability. One
> of which is that (as a general rule) a home directory is personal
> rather than portable. Another is that there's official java jconsole
> which does not understand J.
>
> But, also, for a long time now, Debian based distributions have been
> distributing j with /usr/bin/ijconsole as a symbolic link to the
> current installed location for J. (Here, the 'i' in ijconsole stands
> for Iverson.)
>
> So I think that now would  be a good time to adopt that as "documented
> standard practice" for j shell scripts.
>
> FYI,
>
> --
> Raul
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