Determine the path of the executing BASH script

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Possible Duplicate    Can a Bash script tell what directory it  39 s stored in        In a Windows command script  one can determine the directory path of the currently executing script using   dp0  For example    echo Running from   dp0   What would be the equivalent in a BASH script

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Contributed by Stephane CHAZELAS on c u s  Assuming POSIX shell   prg  0 if     -e   prg     then   case  prg in           exit 1           prg   command -v --   prg      exit     esac fi dir      cd -P --    dirname --   prg     amp  amp  pwd -P      exit prg  dir   basename --   prg      exit   printf   s n    prg

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Assuming you type in the full path to the bash script  use  0 and dirname  e g       bin bash echo   0  dirname   0    Example output      a b c myScript bash  a b c myScript bash  a b c   If necessary  append the results of the  PWD variable to a relative path   EDIT  Added quotation marks to handle space characters

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echo Running from  dirname  0

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Vlad s code is overquoted   Should be   MY PATH  dirname   0   MY PATH    cd   MY PATH   amp  amp  pwd

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For the relative path  i e  the direct equivalent of Windows    dp0    MY PATH   dirname    0     echo   MY PATH    For the absolute  normalized path   MY PATH   dirname    0                    relative MY PATH     cd    MY PATH    amp  amp  pwd        absolutized and normalized if   -z   MY PATH      then     error  for some reason  the path is not accessible     to the script  e g  permissions re-evaled after suid    exit 1    fail fi echo   MY PATH

[bash] Determine the path of the executing BASH script

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