How to get full path to script file inside script itself? And in case of sym links?

maggus · 05-28-2009, 08:07 AM

Hi,

When I need to get path to the script file inside script itself I use something like this:

Code:

`dirname $0`

that works file until I call the script through sym link to it. In that case above code prints the location of the link instead the original file.

Is there a way to get the path of the original script file, not the link?

Thanks,
Mike

fpmurphy · 05-28-2009, 08:26 AM

Have a look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7...a-shell-script

Guttorm · 05-28-2009, 08:27 AM

Hi

There is a command "realpath" that will change it to the absolute filename. But it might not be available. On Ubuntu you need to "apt-get install realpath". I don't know about Fedora.

You could try:
`realpath dirname $0`

maggus · 05-28-2009, 08:40 AM

Thanks, fpmurphy.
That helped.