scriptDir

Abstract

Get the directory of the loaded orc/csd file

Description

Get the directory of the loaded script (orc/csd). This is not necessarily the same as the current working directory (which can be queried via the opcode pwd). The pwd points at the directory from which csound was launched, the script directory is always the directory of the script being run. For example, if csound is launched as:

$ /home/foo/> csound subdir/myscript.csd

The current working dir is /home/foo, whereas the script directory is /home/foo/subdir

This is useful when communicating to another process which is not aware of csound's environment and needs an absolute path to some file relative to the script being run

Syntax

Spath scriptDir

Arguments

Output

• Spath: the path of the loaded script

Execution Time

• Init

Examples

Spath scriptDir
prints "The script is being run from this folder: %s \n", Spath

See also

• pathAbsolute
• findFileInPath
• pwd

Credits

Eduardo Moguillansky, 2020