Re: How to determine current home directory

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?