> Use the command "pwd".

Nope. That tells me where the user is, not where the shell script is.

> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I feel silly for asking this. But I just realized I don't try this very often.
> 
> Is there a way for a shell script to find itself? Or more precisely, the 
> directory it is in?
> 
> I am trying to run a program that wants an ini file specified on the command 
> line; but it defaults to the assumption of having its config file in /etc 
> unless you tell it where it is. And rather than a one-line script that hard 
> codes a directory, I'd rather that it (the script) can tell where it is 
> located, to use an ini file there.
> 
> (Yea, a one-line script to just pass a config file argument to a program.)
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