Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 14:59:03 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: making shell script run in its own directory Message-ID: <20000702145903.A66917@manatee.mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <20000702211344.38B1216F@woodstock.monkey.net>; from hamilton@pobox.com on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 04:13:44PM -0500 References: <20000702130901.A66305@manatee.mammalia.org> <20000702211344.38B1216F@woodstock.monkey.net>
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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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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