Getting current file path (runtime.Caller)

[Dobrosław Żybort]

Hello,

I have one problem:
I would like to get current exe file path. I know I can't rely on os.Getwd() because I want to execute my file from different folders without issues.
So I found http://andrewbrookins.com/tech/golang-get-directory-of-the-current-file/

Sample program:
http://play.golang.org/p/lN0NZn__vH

I changed 1 to 0 in runtime.Caller(0) because runtime.Caller(1) returning c:/Go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c.
go build and everything looked nice, I got file path but... when I moved my exe file it's still showing me same path it was build in:
D:\Golibs\my\src\hello>hello.exe
D:/Golibs/my/src/hello/hello.go
and different path:
D:\Golibs\my\src>hello.exe
D:/Golibs/my/src/hello/hello.go    // still same
Is that expected behaviour?

Is there any cross platform, portable way of getting executable file path? (Not path from with we executing it)

Best regards,
Dobrosław Żybort

[Matt Kane's Brain]

That's the source file path, not the executable path. The executable
name is in os.Args[0]. The path to it is not always absolute, and the
name can change depending how it's started.

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[Dobrosław Żybort]

Thank you for reply.

Is there a way to always get absolute file path? Or at last absolute path to folder where file reside?

Best regards,
Dobrosław Żybort

[brainman]

http://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#Abs ?

Alex

[Matt Kane's Brain]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:37 PM, brainman <alex.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#Abs ?

That will work if your current working directory is the same as it was
when you started.

If the program was started by looking in the PATH, all you get is
program name, so you can probably try exec.LookPath:
http://golang.org/pkg/os/exec/#LookPath

[brainman]

http://godoc.org/bitbucket.org/kardianos/osext ?

Alex

[Dobrosław Żybort]

It's working! Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Dobrosław Żybort

W dniu sobota, 23 lutego 2013 00:07:36 UTC+1 użytkownik brainman napisał:

http://godoc.org/bitbucket.org/kardianos/osext ?

Alex