From e631ad6009100515933ad35f6902cfd779b53f7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: r4 <r4@nobrain.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 20:35:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] allow symlinks to executable

---
 config.sh               |  3 ++-
 southpark-downloader.sh | 13 ++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config.sh b/config.sh
index 30028b1..fe60ccc 100644
--- a/config.sh
+++ b/config.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # South Park Downloader Configuration File #
 ############################################
 
-# Relative or absolute paths are allowed. Please DON'T use ~/, but rather $HOME or /home/$USER.
+# Absolute paths or paths relative to the executable are allowed.
+# Please DON'T use ~/, but rather $HOME or /home/$USER.
 
 # youtube-dl (or youtube-dlc) executable path
 YOUTUBE_DL="./yt-dlc/youtube-dlc"
diff --git a/southpark-downloader.sh b/southpark-downloader.sh
index d46d7fd..0014a4f 100755
--- a/southpark-downloader.sh
+++ b/southpark-downloader.sh
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-source "$(dirname "$0")/config.sh"
+# Resolve executable directory
+DIR="$(dirname "$(readlink -e "$0")")"
 
-# Turn paths into absolute ones, if they aren't already. Will be necessary, since we'll change directories later.
+source "$DIR/config.sh"
+
+# Turn paths into absolute ones if they aren't already. Will be necessary since we'll change directories later.
 [ ! "${CACHEDIR::1}" = "/" ] &&
-	CACHEDIR="$(readlink -f "$(dirname "$0")/$CACHEDIR")"
+	CACHEDIR="$DIR/$CACHEDIR"
 [ ! "${OUTDIR::1}" = "/" ] &&
-	OUTDIR="$(readlink -f "$(dirname "$0")/$OUTDIR")"
+	OUTDIR="$DIR/$OUTDIR"
 [ ! "${YOUTUBE_DL::1}" = "/" ] &&
-	YOUTUBE_DL="$(readlink -f "$(dirname "$0")/$YOUTUBE_DL")"
+	YOUTUBE_DL="$DIR/$YOUTUBE_DL"
 
 [ ! -e "$OUTDIR" ] && mkdir -p "$OUTDIR"
 [ ! -e "$CACHEDIR" ] && mkdir -p "$CACHEDIR"