Re: How to determine current home directory

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxx>]

Well, now that you ask:

How do you determine the home directory ?
How do you determine the current directory ?

The task at hand is to copy a monthly file from the Iseries
to the respected users mapped drives using cpytoimpf.

It dawned on me that I will not neccessarily know who is
running the CLP that will be doing this and there fore will
not know how to construct the path correctly ex: 
/home/patrick/detail_file.csv.

I not sure what you mean by a relative path vs absolute path.

I will also need to know if the path really exists in the IFS and what 
to do if it
does not.

What if folder patrick does not exist ?

On 11/3/2010 3:14 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> Hi Pat,
>
> > I found that the "home" directory is stored in the user profile, such
> > as '/home/patrick'.  This appears to be the standard default
> > directory, but what if that is NOT the users directory.
> Are you looking to retrieve the home directory or the current directory?
>    Your subject, and the preceding paragraph are talking about the home
> directory (which is also "the user's directory", I guess) by contrast,
> the remainder of your message talks about the current directory.
>
> > How do I determine what the current directory is or is this even possible ?
> > Maybe there is no such thing as the current directory.
> There's definitely such a thing!!
>
>
> > I want to do this in a clp and do some cpytoimpf of various files, but I
> > want to make sure where the files are actually going to.
> I'm not sure I understand this.  If this is a CLP, where are the file
> locations coming from?  Asking a user?  Are they stored in a file?  Are
> they hard-coded in the application?   How will retrieving the user's
> current (or home) directory help?
>
> If you're confused about where files are being placed, why are you using
> relative paths (instead of absolute ones) to begin with?