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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Determine FULL name of current script Post 302416414 by Corona688 on Monday 26th of April 2010 11:23:07 AM
Old 04-26-2010
If you're running bash, you may be on linux, and may thus have the general purpose command 'realpath'.
 

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REALPATH(1)							   User Commands						       REALPATH(1)

NAME
realpath - print the resolved path SYNOPSIS
realpath [OPTION]... FILE... DESCRIPTION
Print the resolved absolute file name; all but the last component must exist -e, --canonicalize-existing all components of the path must exist -m, --canonicalize-missing no components of the path need exist -L, --logical resolve '..' components before symlinks -P, --physical resolve symlinks as encountered (default) -q, --quiet suppress most error messages --relative-to=FILE print the resolved path relative to FILE --relative-base=FILE print absolute paths unless paths below FILE -s, --strip, --no-symlinks don't expand symlinks -z, --zero separate output with NUL rather than newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report realpath translation bugs to <http://translationpro- ject.org/team/> AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
readlink(1), readlink(2), realpath(3) The full documentation for realpath is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and realpath programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'realpath invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 REALPATH(1)
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