Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 16:13:44 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: making shell script run in its own directory Message-ID: <20000702211344.38B1216F@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:09:01 PDT." <20000702130901.A66305@manatee.mammalia.org>
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In message <20000702130901.A66305@manatee.mammalia.org>, R Joseph Wright wrote: } How do I make a shell script run in the directory where it resides rather tha } n } the directory where it was called from? Before you do anything interesting in the script, add a line like: cd $(dirname $0) Though generally I consider this kind of thing bad practice. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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