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Re: Use Shell Command from Pharo

Posted by Damien Pollet-2 on Mar 19, 2016; 4:14pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Use-Shell-Command-from-Pharo-tp4885330p4885487.html

On 19 March 2016 at 16:45, Peter Uhnák <[hidden email]> wrote:

I don't actually see the reason why it should assume root folder if you don't specify a path… that's stupid on many levels (I blame mac).

It's root because that's where the system launches applications from, when you double-click them in the Finder (or via the open command, I think). You'll see that GUI-launched images do not inherit your shell environment either.

However, if you run pharo from command-line, you get the usual unix behavior.

On Linux you get home, although that's imho also wrong and it should use the folder of the image… but maybe that's a misconfiguration of OSProcess.

No, it's the same logic than on Mac (albeit $HOME is arguably a little more sensible than the filesystem's root).

I'm not sure what's the correct behavior here, unless there is a way to know if pharo was launched from GUI (where working directory is meaningless and pharo should probably chdir() to the image directory) or from command-line (where the working directory is meaningful and should be honored. On OSX, maybe there's a way to pass GUI-specific arguments, through the Info.plist file?