Well, you got me all enthused, sigh :-(. Which requires a path. The objective (here) is not to put the scripts on a path because they are transient and using PATH would be overkill. So:
./<my_script> Which does indeed provide a path ('.'). But so does dirname $0. source scripts/<my_scripts> Which can't find <my_scripts>. `dirname $0` returns 'bash', and as an added mystery if the code looks like: echo $0 echo `dirname $0` which -a <my_script> the system also crashes my bash shell. Oh well. art On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 09:20:53 -0800, wrote: >I'm trying to find the directory of an executing bash script and am having >very limited success. For example(s): > >1. <path>/script.sh >2. source <path>/script.sh >3. bash <path>/script.sh > >I can find the correct <path> only for the first example (dirname $0). PWD >(of course) only works when <path> == ./. The other two cases I can't seem >to get to work. Any idea how to get the <path> in examples 2 and 3? > >art > Art, unless I'm missing something you want which -a your_script zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s%s*%CyrnfrTfcbafbeROenzSZbbyranne%|:%s)[R-T]) )Ig|:norm G1VGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/