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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting absolute path for a script ran with relative path Post 302410866 by rss67 on Wednesday 7th of April 2010 04:23:14 AM
Old 04-07-2010
absolute path for a script ran with relative path
I have a script in which i want to print absolute path of the same script irrespective of path from where i run script.

I am using
test.sh:

echo "pwd : `pwd`"
echo "script name: $0"
echo "dirname: `dirname $0`"

when i run script from /my/test/dir/struct as ../test.sh the output i get is

pwd : /my/test/dir/struct
script name: ../test.sh
dirname: ..

I want dirname to be printed as absolute path. script gives proper output if I run it with absolute path.
as /my/test/dir/test.sh the output i get is

pwd : /my/test/dir/struct
script name: /my/test/dir/test.sh
dirname: /my/test/dir

i want the same output in case when i run script using relative path
 

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MAKESH(1)						      General Commands Manual							 MAKESH(1)

NAME

       makeSH - a .SH script maker

SYNOPSIS

       makeSH files

DESCRIPTION

       MakeSH  examines  one or more scripts and produces a .SH file that, when run under sh, will produce the original script.  The .SH script so
       produced has two sections containing code destined for the output.  The first section has variable substitutions performed  on  it  (taking
       values  from  config.sh), while the second section does not.  MakeSH does not know which variables you want to have substituted, so it puts
       the whole script into the second section.  It's up to you to insert any variable substitutions in the first section for any values you want
       from config.sh.

       You  should  run  makeSH from within your top-level directory and use the relative path to the file as an argument, so that the "Extracting
       ..." line printed while running the produced .SH file later on will give that same path.

AUTHOR

       Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com>

SEE ALSO

       pat(1), metaconfig(1), makedist(1).

BUGS

       It could assume that variables from metaconfig's Glossary need to be initialized in the first section, but I'm too lazy to make it do that.

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