Re: bash scripts: how to determine directory of 'source'd file

[Juergen Fiedler]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:26:27PM +0000, michael wrote:
> Presuming I have a file setEnvVars.sh that I wish to source, 
>   . path/setEnvVars.sh
> How do I, within the script, determine the actual directory within which
> the setEnvVars.sh file sits? The sourcing seems to disallow me access to
> $0 etc
> 
> thanks, M

If I understand your question correctly, the '$_' variable should do
the trick.

 --j

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