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rc.local runs .sh file in wrong directory

rated 0 times [ 4] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 10663 / 2 Years ago, thu, april 7, 2022, 12:16:01

In rc.local I added a line for my shell file I want to run on boot:

/direc/tory/<fileName>.sh

The script looks like this:

#!bin/sh

wget "http://somesite.org/someJava.jar" -O /direc/tory/someJavaFile.jar

java -d64 -Xincgc -Xmx512M -jar /direc/tory/someJavaFile.jar

and I would assume it would run and load in the /direc/tory/ folder but it keeps running in / and it saves all its files in there as well.

What do I have to do to force it to run in the /direc/tory/ folder?

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answered 2 Years ago izeeas · Accepted Answer

Your script doesn't contain any command to set the current directory, so it runs in the same directory as the process that invoked it. When it's executed from rc.local, which is executed from init, the current directory is the root directory /.

Add cd /direc/tory/ to your script. By the way, note that it's #!/bin/sh (#!bin/sh happens to work here only because you're executing your script from the root directory; it's a very bad idea to rely on this.)

#!/bin/sh

set -e

cd /direc/tory

wget "http://somesite.org/someJava.jar" -O someJavaFile.jar

java -d64 -Xincgc -Xmx512M -jar someJavaFile.jar

I also added set -e in the script. This makes it stop if one of the commands fails. For example, if wget cannot download the jar, then java isn't executed.