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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
 
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