WorkingDirectory not set correctly to USER_HOME

[mbtaylor]

If I have the following in the Info.plist:

<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
<string>$USER_HOME</string>

I (well, one of my users) see this error message in the startup log:

/Applications/VO-tools/topcat-4.2-2/TOPCAT.app/Contents/MacOS/TopcatUJAStub: line 258: cd: ~: No such file or directory

I think the problem is the quotes round the tilde character in the WorkingDirectory assignment here:

       elif [ "${JVMWorkDir}" == "\$USER_HOME" ]; then
            WorkingDirectory="~"

but it's hard for me to test it because I don't have a Mac myself. Is this feature believed working as it stands? Can somebody try it out and, if it's a bug, fix it? Thanks!

[jlholt]

I am able to reproduce your problem on my MacBookPro running Yosemite. You are correct that if the assignment is coded as
WorkingDirectory=~
then the stub will be able to cd correctly. It will also work if the ~ is replaced with $HOME. But I would prefer to let the author fix the code.

[tofi86]

Thanks for reporting this issue.
At the moment, I can't test this, but I think I remember that I put it in quotes to avoid issues with blanks in path names.
writing this, i'm wondering if OS X even allows spaces in usernames - my mac stripped the space during setup...

However, looking at line 148 we got a similar situation with an inconsistency in the script. There I used the tilda as well - but with an eval echo to expand the path name first:

    USER_HOME="`eval echo ~`"

Could you please check the following and see if it works if you change line 131 ff. to the following:

    elif [ "${JVMWorkDir}" == "\$USER_HOME" ]; then
        WorkingDirectory="`eval echo ~`"

[jlholt]

You don't need to worry about blanks. I didn't say so in my previous post
but I did test what happens when my home directory setting contains blanks.
It works fine. You simply need to remove the quotes as in...

WorkingDirectory=~

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Tobias Fischer notifications@github.com
wrote:

Thanks for reporting this issue.
At the moment, I can't test this, but I think I remember that I put it in
quotes to avoid issues with blanks in path names.
writing this, i'm wondering if OS X even allows spaces in usernames - my
mac stripped the space during setup...

However, looking at line 148
https://github.com/tofi86/universalJavaApplicationStub/blob/master/src/universalJavaApplicationStub#L148
we got a similar situation with an inconsistency in the script. There I
used the tilda as well - but with an eval echo to expand the path name
first:

USER_HOME="`eval echo ~`"

Could you please check the following and see if it works if you change
line 131 ff. to the following:

elif [ "${JVMWorkDir}" == "\$USER_HOME" ]; then
    WorkingDirectory="`eval echo ~`"

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[tofi86]

Going to use the environment variable $HOME in the future. bugfix is on the way...