[KAFKA-4566] Can't Symlink to Kafka bins

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.1.1
• Component/s: tools
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Akhilesh Naidu
• Reporter: Stephane Maarek
• Created: 22/Dec/16 05:52
• Updated: 20/Jul/19 16:45

Description

in the kafka consumer for example, the last line is :
https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh#L21

exec $(dirname $0)/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer "$@"

if I create a symlink using

ln -s

it doesn't resolve the right directory name because of $(dirname $0)

I believe the right way is to do:

"$(dirname "$(readlink -e "$0")")"

Any thoughts on that before I do a PR?