[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-6553) hive CLI shell use of `dirname "$0"` prevents it from being linked from other directories

["Remus Rusanu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Remus Rusanu commented on HIVE-6553:
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I'm not comfortable submitting a patch that uses readlink because readlink is not available on all platforms and I think readlink -f is not available on OS X. Given that no one complained about this issue before, destabilizing the main CLI seems too risky.

> hive CLI shell use of `dirname "$0"` prevents it from being linked from other directories
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-6553
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6553
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Remus Rusanu
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I tried making /usr/bin/hive a link to /usr/lib/hive-0.14/bin/hive . But the launch fails because:
> {code}
> bin=`dirname "$0"`
> bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
> . "$bin"/hive-config.sh
> {code}
> So I used a readlink -f first, to locate the proper script home, and then it works fine. 



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