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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Launching shell scripts from different dirs Post 302441478 by Scott on Saturday 31st of July 2010 06:10:30 AM
Old 07-31-2010
Hi.

You can use the pwd command, or the $PWD variable to see where you are when you launch the script.
 

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PWD(1)								   User Commands							    PWD(1)

NAME
pwd - print name of current/working directory SYNOPSIS
pwd [OPTION] DESCRIPTION
Print the full filename of the current working directory. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit NOTE: your shell may have its own version of pwd, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu- mentation for details about the options it supports. AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering. REPORTING BUGS
Report pwd bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 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
getcwd(3) The full documentation for pwd is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and pwd programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'pwd invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 PWD(1)
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