Answer by HemanthJabalpuri for determining path to sourced shell script
wdir="$PWD"; [ "$PWD" = "/" ] && wdir="" case "$0" in /*) scriptdir="${0%/*}";; *) scriptdir="$wdir/${0#./}"; scriptdir="${scriptdir%/*}";; esac echo "$scriptdir" Maybe this will not work with...
View ArticleAnswer by Patrick Maupin for determining path to sourced shell script
this answer describes how lsof and a bit of grep magic is the only thing that seems to stand a chance of working for nested sourced files under tcsh: /usr/sbin/lsof +p $$ | grep -oE /.\*source_me.tcsh
View ArticleAnswer by JamesThomasMoon1979 for determining path to sourced shell script
tl;dr script=$(readlink -e -- "${BASH_SOURCE}") (for bash obviously) $BASH_SOURCE test cases given file /tmp/source1.sh echo '$BASH_SOURCE '"(${BASH_SOURCE})" echo 'readlink -e $BASH_SOURCE'\...
View ArticleAnswer by dols3m for determining path to sourced shell script
To make your script both bash- and zsh-compatible instead of using if statements you can simply write ${BASH_SOURCE[0]:-${(%):-%x}}. The resulting value will be taken from BASH_SOURCE[0] when it's...
View ArticleAnswer by Mathieu CAROFF for determining path to sourced shell script
I was a bit confused by the community wiki answer (from Shawn J. Goff), so I wrote a script to sort things out. About $_, I found this: Usage of _ as an environment variable passed to a command. It's...
View ArticleAnswer by Paul Brannan for determining path to sourced shell script
This worked for me in bash, dash, ksh, and zsh: if test -n "$BASH" ; then script=$BASH_SOURCE elif test -n "$TMOUT"; then script=${.sh.file} elif test -n "$ZSH_NAME" ; then script=${(%):-%x} elif test...
View ArticleAnswer by gkb0986 for determining path to sourced shell script
This solution applies only to bash and not tcsh. Note that the commonly supplied answer ${BASH_SOURCE[0]} won't work if you try to find the path from within a function. I've found this line to always...
View ArticleAnswer by Matt for determining path to sourced shell script
For the bash shell, I found @Dennis Williamson's answer most helpful, but it didn't work in the case of sudo. This does: if ( [[ $_ != $0 ]] && [[ $_ != $SHELL ]] ); then echo "I'm being...
View ArticleAnswer by Shawn J. Goff for determining path to sourced shell script
For thoroughness and the sake of searchers, here is what these do... It is a community wiki, so feel free to add other shell's equivalents (obviously, $BASH_SOURCE will be different). test.sh: #!...
View ArticleAnswer by Dennis Williamson for determining path to sourced shell script
In tcsh, $_ at the beginning of the script will contain the location if the file was sourced and $0 contains it if it was run. #!/bin/tcsh set sourced=($_) if ("$sourced" != "") then echo "sourced...
View ArticleAnswer by Bruce Ediger for determining path to sourced shell script
Actually, "dirname $0" will get you the path to the script, but you have to interpret it a bit: $ cat bash0 #!/bin/bash echo \$0=$0 dirname $0 $ bash0 # "." appears in PATH right now. $0=./bash0 . $...
View ArticleAnswer by pbm for determining path to sourced shell script
I think that you could use $BASH_SOURCE variable. It returns path that was executed: pbm@tauri ~ $ /home/pbm/a.sh /home/pbm/a.sh pbm@tauri ~ $ ./a.sh ./a.sh pbm@tauri ~ $ source /home/pbm/a.sh...
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Is there a way for a sourced shell script to find out the path to itself? I'm mainly concerned with bash, though I have some coworkers who use tcsh. I'm guessing I may not have a ton of luck here,...
View ArticleAnswer by maoizm for determining path to sourced shell script
The trickiest part is finding currently sourced file is for dash shell used as sh replacement in Ubuntu. The following code snippet can be used in the script being sourced to determine its absolute...
View ArticleAnswer by gen1us for determining path to sourced shell script
If you need absolute path to the directory containing the script, you can use this snippet:BASE_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]:-$0}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"If you only...
View ArticleAnswer by Pablo Almaguer for determining path to sourced shell script
I use the code above to get the path of sourced bash file:$(readlink -f ${BASH_SOURCE[0]})
View ArticleAnswer by Hutch for determining path to sourced shell script
mention these two lines inside your main script,SCRIPT=`realpath $0`SCRITPATH=`dirname $SCRIPT`other script should be in the same folderto use them,bash $SCRITPATH/your_sub_script.sh #(this line also...
View ArticleAnswer by Gabriel Staples for determining path to sourced shell script
Here is the best answer I think. It solves a lot of problems not solved in the other answers, namely:realpath can find the absolute path from a relative path, and will expand symbolic links (use...
View ArticleAnswer by Hutch for How to determine the path to a sourced tcsh or bash shell...
mention these two lines inside your main script,SCRIPT=`realpath $0`SCRITPATH=`dirname $SCRIPT`other script should be in the same folderto use them,bash $SCRITPATH/your_sub_script.sh #(this line also...
View ArticleAnswer by Gabriel Staples for How to determine the path to a sourced tcsh or...
Here is the best answer I think. It solves a lot of problems not solved in the other answers, namely:realpath can find the absolute path from a relative path, and will expand symbolic links (use...
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