Hmmm, You're right... readlink may be not available in MacOS. Regards Piotr Minkina
W dniu 10.06.2012 18:56, Hussein Shafie pisze: > On 06/10/2012 11:15 AM, Piotr Minkina wrote: >> >> I think in file xxe-perso-5_2_1/bin/xxe on line 4 instead of: >> >> dist=`dirname $0` >> >> should be: >> >> dist=`readlink -f $0 | xargs dirname`. >> >> In first case symlinks to xxe-perso-5_2_1/bin/xxe are not supported --- >> message "xxe.jar not found" is returned. In second case all works fine. >> > > Thanks for the tip. However, our very simple xxe Bourne shell script is > not meant to be specific to Linux and and on other Unix-like system > (e.g. Mac OS X), I'm not sure that you'll find the readlink and xargs > commands. > > > > --- > PS: Despite the fact that I use Unix systems since 1985 (my first Unix > machine was a ``workstation'' called a Rigde), I never liked the Unix > habit to copy (or symlink) application files to /usr/bin/, /usr/lib/, > etc. I'm much prefer applications to be self-contained (like this is the > case on Mac OS X) even if this implies having a gigantic PATH > environment variable. > > > > -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support

