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From: marko@hutch (Mark O'Shea)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Using ".." in Scripts & Makefiles
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Date: 26 Mar 91 20:15:09 GMT
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I am resposible for upgrading a set of test suites which have some scripts
and makefiles that do things like:

   HOME=..

or
   cd ../../

etc.

Now I know that they will work, but I am instinctively uncomfortable with
them.  I personally believe that spelling out the path names is a better
practice.

What I want to know is some good reasons to change to what I believe to
be a sounder way of doing it, eg,

  HOME=/<name>/<user>/<etc>

or
  cd /<name>/<dir1>/<etc>

The folks I am presently working for don't agree with me on this point.

Thanks,
Mark O'Shea
marko@ijf1.intel.com