In windows if you create a shortcut to a .exe file or .bat, that file will run on its own directory, not where shortcut is, but in Linux, links pointing to scripts run in same directory as where link is and that breaks everything if said script is relies on files on its root directory, is there a way to solve it without shell wrappers or using absolute path?
I tried both hard links and soft links but they yield the same result.
Your observations are wrong. I cannot tel much about Windows, but on linux,
links pointing to scripts run in same directory as where link is
is not true. A link pointing to an executable runs in the directory where the program is started. You can easily verify this with
ln -s /usr/bin/ls /tmp/ls
/tmp/ls
This will output the contents of your current directory and not the contents of /tmp
It is unclear what you mean by 'it breaks everything'. Furthermore, you should avoid placing files in / unless it is absolutely necessary.
I have a softlink /ImageStore to a folder on a mounted Data-disk...
This:
$ linkpos="$(find /ImageStore -maxdepth 1 -printf "%l\n")"; ( cd $linkpos ; ls -l)
... will list the content of that folder.
In a similar manner you may extract a script path from "$linkpos", cd to that path and then execute the script.
The info you need on top of the above is in man bash, type /Parameter Exp and press ENTER as you're viewing the man page.
aliasyour problem away but you don't tell us what it is so I don't know.