Yes, if that is where the user has installed J. I've seen it installed in /Applications/ or $HOME/Applications/ or in /usr/local/jxxx/bin/ etc.
Thanks, -- Raul On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 11:42 PM bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
