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I have multiple git repositories on my machine. Each has a subdirectory called scripts/ with a script called cleancode.py.

Using bash (really git-bash), when I run cleancode.py I want it to execute the instance of cleancode.py from the scripts/ directory of the repo that my current working directory is within. My current hack approach is to have this in my path:

export PATH="$PATH:./scripts:./../scripts:./../../scripts:./../../../scripts:"

This works tolerably well. I suppose it could fail if I'm in a subdirectory more than three levels deep, but that's not a problem in practice. The real problem is that the first time I run cleancode.py it seems to remember the relative path of that execution and in future only looks for cleancode.py at that relative path. So if I run from the repo directory first then it works, and then if I cd to some subdir and run it again I get:

bash: ./scripts/cleancode.py: No such file or directory

because it's using the path at which it found it relative to where I was the first time I ran it. So what can I do to get it to not remember where it last found the script? Or can I get it to remember the absolute path thereto, rather than the relative path? Finally, is there a more robust way to deal with the issue as a whole, one that doesn't depend on adding four relative paths to my path? Thanks in advance.

Edit: I just found Disable bash's cache of executables in the path and set +h fixes the flaw in my hack. My actual question still stands, though: what is the most robust way to find the version of a command within the nearest relative path?

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  • No direct answer to your question, but for the case of your scripts you could define an alias that runs scripts/cleancode.py from the root directory of the repository you're in, something like alias cleancode='"$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"/scripts/cleancode.py'. – DonHolgo Feb 19 '21 at 09:34

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You can create a shell script cleancode in your PATH and do something like that :

#!/bin/bash

cwd=$PWD


while [ "x$cwd" != x/ ]; do
    if [ -e $cwd/scripts/cleancode.py ]; then
        # do stuff here
        break
    fi
    cwd=dirname $cwd
done

Note the / directory is not checked since the loop is broken before.