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From: nwosuck@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Kingsley Nwosu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: comp.unix.questions
Message-ID: <4043@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 16:38:03 GMT
References: <1990Sep7.152354.9439@ecn.purdue.edu> <9434@uudell.dell.com>
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In article <9434@uudell.dell.com>, root@ninja.dell.com (Randy Davis) writes:
> In article <1990Sep7.152354.9439@ecn.purdue.edu> patkar@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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