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I was wondering if anybody had any ports for macports that they particularly liked and wanted to recommend - I'm looking for some more stuff to play around with.

Oh that makes more sense. Ok. I think I can work out what the rest of the code does from that. Thanks!

Could you explain this to me? I'm not sure I understand what basename does (I'm new to the syntax of unix; I don't know all the nuances) Is %% a mod operator?

my problem isn't with your example. The combination of $PWD and $0 looks good. It's with a problem that neither your example nor what I tried to do took into account. When I got my error, it was...

Oh, that makes sense.
Except for one thing. Wouldn't that make the path "....../myscript.sh", so that when you do ./2ndscript.sh, it tries to find ...../myscript.sh/2ndscript.sh, which doesn't...

...and that didn't actually work. Nvm. When I ran it, I got this error:
For the first one, it said that ~/hi didn't exist (the file was actually in ~/Destkop/testfolder/hi)
For the second one, it...

What about if the shell is run by opening the file. Wouldn't the directory still be at ~/?

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Oh wait, I...

The two should be one and the same, right? Let's say I run it from a folder /superawesomefolder/myscript
If I then run myscript, so long as myscript doesn't get moved, should the run path be the...

I've got a folder with a few files. One of those is a shell script. I want the shell script to figure out what folder it is, and then using that information, copy some other files in the folder to...

Mac OS X 10.6: Leopard - I'm trying to create a script that will run on its own that can edit system preferences. I've done some digging, and found that a lot of system preference options are...