Almost every article I read told me that you can't have chdir in Java. The accepted answer to this question says you can't do it in Java. However, here's some of the stuff I tried : geo@codebox:~$ java -version java version "1.6.0_14" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_14-b08) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixe...
Seems it's not easy, I don't want to create a bat call an exe to do that. Is there a method to create a windows exe, that can change the current directory when it exit. ...
When I try a "chdir" with a filehandle as argument, "chdir" returns 0 and a pwd returns still the same directory. Should that be so? I tried this, because in the documentation to chdir I found: "On systems that support fchdir, you might pass a file handle or directory handle as argument. On systems that don't support fchdir, p...
Are both of the examples below OK, or is the second one bad style? Case 1: Stay in top directory and use catdir to access subdirectories #!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; my $dir = 'my_dir_with_subdir'; my ( $count, $dh ); use File::Spec::Functions; $count = 0; opendir $dh, $dir or die $!; while ( defined( my $file = re...
According to the manual, chdir, Changes the working directory to EXPR, if possible. This script, when executed from cmd.exe: my $path = 'C:\\some\\path\\'; print "$path\n"; chdir("$path") or die "fail $!"; results in this output: C:\some\path\ but when I am returned to the command prompt - I'm still at the original directory. Am I...
In Windows -- and probably Unix for that matter -- using the chdir() function in a (32-bit) program doesn't change the directory when the program exits. (It does in a 16-bit Windows program.) Does anybody know how to do that in a Windows 32-bit program? ...
hi i want know find the directory is already there or not... if not i would like to create the directory... my coding is below... $da = getdate(); $dat = $da["year"]."-".$da["mon"]."-".$da["mday"]; $m = md5($url)."xml"; if(is_dir($dat)) { chdir($dat); $fh = fopen($m, 'w'); fwrite($fh, $xml); fclose($fh); ech...
Hi, I am writing my own shell program. I am currently implementing the cd command using chdir. I want to implement the chdir with the below options : -P Do not follow symbolic links -L Follow symbolic links (default) I posted a question here previously asking to know if a path is a symbolic link or actual path. But with that info I a...
Hi! I have Delphi 6 prof, with Win7. We have many projects. Some of them are favourites, commonly used/edited. Formerly I used GExperts' fav. files that is shown in "Open dialog" for this. But this is vanished with Win7. The main problem that Delphi don't forcable to use a folder as initial folder. What's this meaning? When I start a...
When I use chdir() to change the current working directory, why doesn't the getenv("PWD") give the present working directory? Do I need to setenv("PWD",newDir,1) also? void intChangeDir(char *newDir) { if( chdir(newDir)==0 ) { printf("Directory changed. The present working directory is \"%s\" \"%s\"\n",gete...
chdir can be used for constant character paths (it takes a const char *), but not for paths inputted by the user (since they have type char *). Is there any way around this? ...
I have a father process and a child process, the second created with fork, the child receive from the father a char s[] (s can be something like "cd Music" ), i extract Music from "cd Music" using strtok, but when chdir(dir) executes i get "No such file or directory". But if i test chdir("Music") i get no error. I want to change the work...
Hey all, I'm trying to change the default path or add a path that the webserver looks for images. I really would really like a solution to do this in PHP and not in htaccess. The most basic example would be trying to "break" the current implementation so say I have a directory with the following: main/ image.png index.php In index...