Re: Dynamically Referencing A Folder Relative To The Executable Location

>
> I am writing a command-line that I would like to execute from any
> location.  Here's one example of how I would invoke it:
>
> c:\Dev > gscript.bat add-app HelloWorld
>
> Note: Assume that gscript.bat is located under "C:\Program
> Files\gscript\bin", and that this folder is also part of my PATH
> variable.  
>
> My Groovy script (which is wrapped by gscript.bat) would then do the
> following:
>
> 1. Create the "C:\Dev\HelloWorld" directory
> 2. copy some files from "C:\Program Files\gscript\data" to
> "C:\Dev\HelloWorld".
>
> This script needs to know about two folders:
>
> 1. Current working directory - this is easy, it's just "new
> File(".").getCanonicalPath()
> 2. The location of the "data" dir.  This is the hard part, because I
> don't want to force myself or anyone else to install my script in a
> particular directory.
>
> One way to find the "data" dir would be to use a %GSCRIPT_HOME%
> environment variable.  This works, but it requires users to add yet
> another environment variable.
>
> Does anyone know of a smarter way to do this?  Can I dynamically find
> the "data" dir based on it's relative location to gscript.bat?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Tom Purl
>
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