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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script that Knows Where it Is Post 302462733 by Corona688 on Friday 15th of October 2010 12:12:21 AM
Old 10-15-2010
I said you had to extract it from the strings. $0 provides the whole input, filename included. If you didn't bother to remove the filename, naturally that didn't work.

Read my example above which shows you how to do so. It extracts the first character of $0 to find out if it's a relative or absolute path, and assembles the path out of $PWD or just $0 accordingly. It find the filename alone with basename, then strips that out of the path with ${var%%stringtoremove}.
 

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dtinfoaction(file formats)												dtinfoaction(file formats)

NAME

       dtinfoaction -- CDE information management actions

SYNOPSIS

       DtLoadInfoLib filename
       Open filename
       DtShowInfoAtLoc
       DtPrintInfoAtLoc

DESCRIPTION

       The CDE Information Management Services support the following information management actions:

       DtLoadInfoLib filename
		 Load  the  information  library  specified  by filename, which can be either a relative or absolute file path. If filename is not
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		 Load the information library specified by filename.  Remaps to DtLoadInfoLib filename.

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