bash question

[Bob McGowan]

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.

-- 
Bob McGowan