set current directory as environment variable
 

Hi,

How do you set current directory (full path) in an environment variable?
For example your current directory is this:
What I need is some thing like this:
doing so $MYHOME should point to '/home/<user>/downloads/applications/'.

Hope it would be simple.

Prashant

Hi,

The pwd command shows the current working directory.

export CURRENTDIR=`pwd`

Hope this helps.

Doesn't 'export CURRENTDIR=`pwd`;' only work if you are in that directory? Could include it in the users path (not in /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc or any /etc/profile.d/*) but ~/.bashrc (as it's read on interactive and non-interactive shell start):

Thanks drunna,

Now this may be a dumb question but I am new to Linux.
I am using this command in a "run.sh" file.
From console, if I run "./run" from the same directory where "run.sh" is it prints the current directory. In case if execute "run.sh" using path, for example:
It print "home/user", the directory from where you are issuing command. What I need is a way where inside "run.sh", I can access the directory where it resides.

Inside "run.sh", I am setting some vars related to directory structure. For example:
If I execute "run.sh" using path, it won't work.

Hope I explained well.

Prashant

@unSpawn: Yes. I assumed that the example given was just that, an example. That combined with the OP's description of the problem led me to my answer.

But you are correct, it does depends on where it is used (my answer will not work when used in the start-up files mentioned by you).

Let's wait and see what the OP really wants :)

EDIT
Too slow..... OP already replied.
/EDIT

Hi,

If I create a script like this:
In my home directory (/home/druuna) and execute it from another directory it works:

If you want to add the lib/ part you need to tell the script where to add it too:
Now it will show the complete path:
Hope this helps.

There's already a variable that holds the present working directory. Oddly enough, it's "$PWD".

Hi druuna,

I think you are not getting me. Your script is in "/home/druuna" and when you are executing it from "/data/Downloads",
it's printing "/data/Downloads". It has to print "/home/druuna", the directory where "run.sh" resides.

Here is the script in "/home/<user>/downloads/application/run.sh"

The contents of the script:
My current directory is:
I am executing "run.sh" from here using full path:
It prints:
The path I need:
Cheers

Prashant

Hi,

In your first post you mentioned this: How do you set current directory (full path) in an environment variable?

The current working directory is always seen from where one starts the script (not where the script itself resides).

If your script resides in /home/<user>/downloads/application/ and you run it from /home/prashant, the pwd command will print /home/prashant and if you run it from /tmp it will print /tmp.

I'm not sure if the /home/<user> part needs to be dynamic in your case (unsure as in: are you asking the correct question). If so you can add the extra part (downloads/application) as mentioned in post #6.

If it does not need to be dynamic, but is always /home/prashant/downloads/application you can declare that in one go (export MYHOME=/home/prashant/downloads/application).

Dynamic example:
The bold part adds a directory (lib in the first example) to the output og pwd. You now have 2 exported variables:
MYHOME -> holds the current working directory, which is dynamic and depends on where the script is started (/home/druuna in the first example)
PYTHONHOME -> holds the content of MYHOME + the added directory, you end up with: /home/druuna/lib

Hope this clears things up.

If this is the exact requirement, something like this should do the trick:
where $0 is the name of the script itself and readlink -f gives its full path, independently from the way you invoked script. The dirname command let you retrieve only the name of the directory where the script resides. Hope this helps.

Hi colucix,

You are the man!!!!!
IT WORKS....

Thanks for the tip.

Cheers

Prashant