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It is possible, but it's not trivial.
To have it work from gnome (nautilus actually), try this:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
MYPID=$$
TMP=$(cat /proc/$MYPID/cmdline | tr '\000' '\n' | sed -n 2p)
SCRIPTDIR=${TMP%/*}
echo "This script lives in $SCRIPTDIR"
sleep 30 # Delay to see result in temp xterm
To make it also work when the script is started "the normal way", i.e. from the command line:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
MYPID=$$
TMP=$(cat /proc/$MYPID/cmdline | tr '\000' '\n' | sed -n 2p)
SCRIPTDIR=${TMP%/*}
if [ "${SCRIPTDIR:0:1}" != "/" ] ; then
SCRIPTDIR=$PWD/$SCRIPTDIR
SCRIPTDIR=${SCRIPTDIR%/.}
fi
echo "This script lives in $SCRIPTDIR"
sleep 30 # Delay to see result in temp xterm
It's still not 100% complete. E.g. if the current working dir is /home/hko/dummy and the script is in /home/hko/bin. Then you can start the script with:
shell$ ../bin/thescript.sh
...but it will not correctly print the directory.
To solve this it becomes quite more complex, unless you have the "realpath" program installed. But AFAIK only Debain includes it, and Debian does not install it by default.
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