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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting $0 doesn't have full directory path Post 302591370 by aigles on Thursday 19th of January 2012 10:27:34 AM
Old 01-19-2012
Code:
program=$(whence $0)
program_dir=$(cd $(dirname $program);pwd)

Jean-Pierre.
 

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