Get path to julia install?

[greg_plowman]

@johnomotani

how do I (within a Julia script) get the path to the julia installation directory (containing base/ and stdlib/ )?

Maybe you can find the directory relative to Sys.BINDIR, which is the full path to the directory containing the julia executable:

joinpath(Sys.BINDIR, "..", "share", "julia")

@johnomotani

is there a way to get the equivalent of ~/.julia if it’s not in the default location?

Perhaps you can extract from DEPOT_PATH. See Constants · The Julia Language

first(DEPOT_PATH)