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From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: making shell script run in its own directory
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 04:13:44PM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote:
> 
> In message <20000702130901.A66305@manatee.mammalia.org>, R Joseph Wright wrote:
> } How do I make a shell script run in the directory where it resides rather tha
> } n
> } the directory where it was called from?
> 
> Before you do anything interesting in the script, add a line like:
> 
> cd $(dirname $0)
> 
> Though generally I consider this kind of thing bad practice.

It works!  Can yourself on that last point?


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