I'm writing a reporting script that's part of a portable testing package. The user can unzip the package anywhere on their system, which is fine, but it means I can't hardcode a path.
Let's say that on my system, this script lives at C:/projects/testpackage/foo/bar/script.tcl. I need to set a variable, packageLocation, the path to /testpackage. In this example, it would be C:/Projects/testpackage. But when the user gets the package, he or she could put it anywhere, like so:
C:/Users/whatever/testpackage.
So, how can I call two levels up from the location of my currently running script? In Batch, I could do
:: example.bat
cd %~dp0
cd ../..
set packageLocation=%cd%
In Tcl, I'm lost. I know that the current location of the running script can be called as $::argv0. I've tried using cd ../.., but to no avail. It tries to set packageLocation as "../..C:/Projects/testpackage/foo/bar/script.tcl."
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!