1 Feb
2011
1 Feb
'11
10:41 a.m.
On 02/01/2011 05:23 AM, fedora wrote:
dirname $0
suomi
On 2011-02-01 13:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 14:49 -0700, compdoc wrote:
Is there a bash command that tells an executing script what *its* path is?
echo $PWD
No, that just tells where it was executed from. The OP wants to know where the script actually lives.
poc
The value of $0 on a Linux system will be the full path to where the script was found, so 'dirname $0' works.
However, bash runs on other OS's (Solaris for one), and Solaris does not provide the full path in $0, you only get the name of the script.
So be careful if you're writing code that needs to be portable.
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Bob McGowan