How can I determine the path of a shell script that I'm running right now ?
 

ok, I'm in:
/usr1/boor/home/

and I'm running:
/usr1/Asher/home/scripts/main.sh

I need for main.sh to know the path it is running in - no matter from where I'm running it.

the $0 is the closest I got so far, the only problem is $0 also contains the name of the file itself ("main.sh") and I only want the path ("/usr1/Asher/home/scripts/")

any ideas ?
oh and I would rather not use the "cd" command in the script because it is needed to be in the same place later in the script.
thanks

Hi,

It's not clear to me what you actually want to do, but the following hopefully helps:

dirname $0 => return the directory part.

Try this in your script
 

$PWD=`pwd`

did you read bash's man?
did you try
echo $_
?

echo $_ didn't work

this I tried.
it gives me the path of which i'm running script from (/usr1/boor/home/), not the path of main.sh

$PWD is a system variable on my machine, so there's no need to define it. Just calling $PWD in the script will return the path.

thanks

this works: