[jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-4566) Can't Symlink to Kafka bins

["Colin P. McCabe (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Colin P. McCabe commented on KAFKA-4566:
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The MacOS version of readlink does not have an {{\-e}} option.  So this change would hurt portability.  Is there a way to do this in a more portable way?

> Can't Symlink to Kafka bins
> ---------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-4566
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4566
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: tools
>    Affects Versions: 0.10.1.1
>            Reporter: Stephane Maarek
>              Labels: newbie
>
> in the kafka consumer for example, the last line is :
> https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh#L21
> {code}
> exec $(dirname $0)/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer "$@"
> {code}
> if I create a symlink using 
> {code}
> ln -s
> {code}
> it doesn't resolve the right directory name because of $(dirname $0) 
> I believe the right way is to do:
> {code}
> "$(dirname "$(readlink -e "$0")")"
> {code}
>  
> Any thoughts on that before I do a PR?



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