comp.unix.questions

[Kingsley Nwosu]

In article <9434 at uudell.dell.com>, root at ninja.dell.com (Randy Davis) writes:
> In article <1990Sep7.152354.9439 at ecn.purdue.edu> patkar at helium.ecn.purdue.edu (The Silent Dodo) writes:
> |I have a question about shell scripts.  How can a shell script
> |(sh or csh) find out its own file name?  Actually, I need to
> |know only the directory in which it resides.
> 
>    Hmmmmm..... Off the top of my head, how about this?:
> 
> COMMAND=`basename $0`
> DIR=`type $COMMAND | sed -e 's:^.* /:/:' -e "s:/$COMMAND$::"`
> echo "Parent directory of \"$COMMAND\" is \"$DIR\""
> 

Why not do:

 echo "Directory name is `dirname $0`"

in sh.


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