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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Determining absolute PATH within KSH script Post 22964 by gsatch on Thursday 13th of June 2002 02:30:33 PM
Old 06-13-2002
Determining absolute PATH within KSH script
Hey everyone,

I'd like to determine the absolute path of where a script resides from within the same script. For example, I have a script - /tmp/myscript. Regardless of how that script is call - '/tmp/myscript', 'cd /tmp;./myscript', '. /tmp/myscript' - I'd like to be able to determine - from within 'myscript' - that it's located in '/tmp'.

I've tried combinations of ${PWD}, ${0}, ~+, but nothing has worked, esp. when sourcing the script.

Any ideas will be GREAT appreciated (I've spent almost a day trying to figure this out).

Thanks.
 

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