On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Peng Yu wrote:
> $0 gives the file name of the script. I could use several shell
> command to get the directory where the script is in. But I'm wondering
> if there is an easy-to-use variable that refers to the directory where
> the script is in?
$0 normally gives the full path to the file, so: "${0%/*}"
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