leodutra
2/3/2016 - 1:31 PM

Getting absolute path of a shell / bash script file in execution time

Getting absolute path of a shell / bash script file in execution time

get-absolute-path.sh
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#!/bin/bash 

# REFERENCE: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1638397/1260526

# Absolute path to this script, e.g. /home/user/bin/foo.sh
SCRIPT=$(readlink -f "$0")
# Absolute path this script is in, thus /home/user/bin
SCRIPTPATH=$(dirname "$SCRIPT")
echo $SCRIPTPATH