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From: bcarb@KSP.Unisys.COM (Brian Carb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: How do you find execed pgm directory?
Summary: Does anyone know?
Message-ID: <703@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 89 13:15:47 GMT
References: <9000018@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Unisys/Knowledge Systems Projects, Frazer, PA
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How do you find out the directory of a program that's being run?
If you specify an absolute path to start the program, then the
directory may be part of the argv list (or $0).  However, if the 
program is found and run from some search of the PATH environment
variable, the directory could be any one of the PATH directories.
Is there a shell variable that is set to the directory in which
the program is found?

Please reply via e-mail - thanx.

Brian (bcarb@ksp.unisys.com)