From 59ba169c4abc99f9fd1977972b56bf954fca4c80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel <36420837+Samueru-sama@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:39:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] relative paths turn into paths starting in `$HOME`
 APP-MANAGER

---
 APP-MANAGER | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/APP-MANAGER b/APP-MANAGER
index 494156eb1..5263e4366 100755
--- a/APP-MANAGER
+++ b/APP-MANAGER
@@ -76,19 +76,18 @@ function _appman_check() {
 		echo " and then edit the "$APPMANCONFIG"/appman-config file."
 		echo "$DIVIDING_LINE"
 		read -r -ep " Write the path or just press enter to use default: " location
-		location="$(echo "$location" | sed 's/[ \t]/-/g' 2>/dev/null)"
+		location="$(echo "$location" | sed 's/[ \t]/-/g; s|^\./||' 2>/dev/null)"
 		[ -z "$location" ] && location="$HOME/Applications"
+		if ! echo "$location" | grep "^/" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+			location="$HOME/$location"
+		fi
 		if [ "$location" = "$BINDIR" ]; then
 			echo "$DIVIDING_LINE"
 			echo " 💀 ERROR, you can't install applications in \"$BINDIR\""
 			echo " $BINDIR is normally used for executables, Please choose a different path and retry!" 
 			echo "$DIVIDING_LINE"
 			exit  1
-		elif ! echo "$location" | grep "^/" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-			echo " 💀 ERROR: You need to specify a full path and not a relative path"
-			exit 1
-		fi
-		if ! mkdir -p "$location" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+		elif ! mkdir -p "$location" 2>/dev/null || [ ! -w "$location" ]; then
 			echo " 💀 ERROR: You don't have write access to $location or it is invalid" 
 			exit 1
 		fi