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Program referring to itself

Started by Hydrotronics, 14 November 2015 - 05:24 PM

Hydrotronics #1

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Posted 14 November 2015 - 06:24 PM

Hello! I am here to ask how one would make a program refer to itself within a program. But make sure that it's a variable. The goal I wish to achieve is an installer which does it's job then deletes itself, no matter the name of the program

valithor #2

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Posted 14 November 2015 - 06:34 PM

If the program was run using shell.run, then you can use shell.getRunningProgram, which returns the full path to the program.

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Posted 14 November 2015 - 06:38 PM

Thank you!! I have never heard of that but I have figured out how to work it! Thanks!