Rhino for Windows - path to user directory without having to specify username? On Mac, the “default” scripts directory is ~/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/Scripts where ~ signifies the user directory, if the user is logged on, this shorthand works as a path to the directory without…

‘.’ represents the current directory ’…’ represents the previous directory So the path for C:\Users\username\_tst\hello.py that’s relative to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\scripts is !_-RunPythonScript "..\..\..\..\_tst\hello.py"

[image] Alain: ‘…’ represents the previous directory This, of course, means one step up in the directory hierarchy, not “previously used” in a time sense.

on the mac the path for ~/ac/_tmp/hello.py that’s relative to ~/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/scripts is "../../../../../ac/_tmp/hello.py" you may have problems on the mac if your file or directory names have spaces.

Thanks for the informative lesson guys! --Mitch

Still can’t get this to work on Mac. There’s no way to know where the current directory is, it could be anywhere. I need an alias in the form of an absolute path from the user’s home directory to the file in the scripts folder. –Mitch

I don’t know of a way to expand the home directory var like you want to. But I’m not sure why you can’t get it to work with a relative path because the path is relative to a directory that’s on the path: ~/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/scripts which is static and not the current dir…

Well, I guess I’m just being thick (as a brick) here… What I would like to do is as follows: Add a folder under ~/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/scripts called, say, “junk” Be able to create an alias that will lead to this folder and launch a script inside it no matter what the user…

I think this system is designed so that anyone can be easily confused even if they are not as thick as a brick. Seemed to make sense in 1968, though. I’m a bit confused over what you want to do, though. You say you want to put the script in a folder hierarchy that starts at ~/ Do you mean that ea…

i think ~/ is a unix thing? python (& apparently rhino aliases) don’t have automatic path expansion and it needs to be explicitly called when desiring shell-like path exapansion. https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html but with rhino only, i can’t figure a way to do what you’re trying to d…

[image] AlW: So every user’s ~ directory is an absolute node in the directory structure. To get to another user’s directory it’s just ~/…/newguy/and so on. except what Mitch is saying is that doesn’t work… if you put ~/desktop in a rhino alias, rhino doesn’t know what or where ~/ is… i’d have…

Path to user directory without username

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Alain (Alain Cormier) August 28, 2015, 5:03am 27

Hey Mitch,

I prefer to keep the quotes just in case but it should be ok.

Alain

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