ImageJ getDir("startup") macro outputs directory where ImageJ is installed

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#1

ImageJ Macro Functions documentation says

getDir(“startup”) - Returns the path to the directory that ImageJ was launched from.

I have ImageJ in my machine:

$ which ImageJ
/usr/bin/ImageJ
$ ls -l $(which fiji)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Dec 16 17:33 /usr/bin/fiji -> /opt/fiji/ImageJ-linux64
$ ImageJ --headless --console -eval "print(getVersion());" | tail -n 1
2.1.0/1.53g

I want to open files from my shell working directory with ImageJ and I was expecting that getDir("startup") would return my shell working directory but it returns the directory where I have ImageJ installed:

$ pwd
/home/raniere
$ ImageJ --headless --console -eval "print(getDir('startup'));"
/opt/fiji/

I think this is a bug because ImageJ has getDir("imagej") that will “returns the path to the ImageJ directory”.

$ ImageJ --headless --console -eval "print(getDir('imagej'));"
/opt/fiji/

Can you confirm that I find a bug?

#2

Use getDir(“cwd”), added in the 1.53h31 daily build, to get the current working directory.