Running a .bash file in Eclipse

Question

I know this is really an Eclipse issue but I can't seem to login in their forum. I am running eclipse juno for some c/c++ development.However, I wrote a .bash script that initiate the entire program.As input argument to this script, I have a a configuration file which is one directory lower than the .bash file.

In terminal I just do:

./startenb.bash ./CONF/ANNE 

it runs just fine.

How can I configure the external tools in eclipse to take this file path as input argument?

Any help or old thread vaguely addressing this issue is highly welcome.

Solution

The precise answer is going to depend on what the startenb.bash file does - in particular whether it needs to be run from a particular directory relative to your eclipse project/build tree (when run in the terminal, where is ./ exactly?) but basically it should just be a matter of using the Location, Working Directory, and Arguments boxes in the 'External Tools Configurations' window.

For example, if I have a script in my ~/Documents directory that just prints its working directory and (first) argument:

#!/bin/bash

echo "current directory: $PWD"

echo "running with argument ${1:-[none]}"

then setting

allows me to run

Comments

[steeldriver]

Sorry - I've never tried to set Eclipse breakpoints in a bash script. The best I can suggest is that you add a set -x directive to the script itself to make debugging easier (-x Print commands and their arguments as they are executed. - see help set from the bash prompt).