Re: Determinate the directory whithin a script

["Nicolas KOWALSKI" <nicolas.kowalski@gmail.com>]

On 6/18/06, Paolo Pantaleo <paolopantaleo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a script in something like
>
> /media/sda1/backup/script.sh
>
> since sda1 could be also sda2 or anything, I want to determintate at
> run-time what is the directory in which the script is located, how can
> I do?
>
> pwd doesn't work, since I cuold call the script from some other direcotry

The following shows a possible solution:

#!/bin/sh

current_dir="`pwd`"
cd "`dirname $0`"
script_dir="`pwd`"
cd "${current_dir}"

echo ${script_dir}


My 2 cents,
--
Nicolas