Timeline for One-liner to determine the directory of the currently running bash script
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| Oct 22, 2018 at 21:09 | vote | accept | nagylzs | ||
| Oct 22, 2018 at 18:44 | answer | added | pjh | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 22, 2018 at 15:38 | comment | added | nagylzs | You are all saying that creating location independent code is a bad idea. The location of the script is the environment, and the script can use it. It just happens to be clumsy in bash. It proves that bash is not the perfect tool for the task. But it does not prove that location independent code is bad. Is there a good reason why not to write location independent code? I don't understand why "relative paths should be avoided"? Maybe they should be, but I need an explanation. | |
| Oct 22, 2018 at 12:10 | comment | added | chepner | Typically, you avoid this by putting your code in well-known places when you install it, rather than making the script figure out what random directory you placed it in. | |
| Oct 22, 2018 at 12:00 | answer | added | Lewis M | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 22, 2018 at 11:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 22, 2018 at 10:06 | answer | added | Bsquare ℬℬ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 22, 2018 at 9:49 | comment | added | Aserre | I'm fairly sure you won't get better result than the question you linked. If you need to reuse the code, you could declare it in a system wide function or alias, or even just an external script you systematically call before your main script execution | |
| Oct 22, 2018 at 9:24 | comment | added | nagylzs | These small scripts will be symlinked to ~/bin directories of various users on the system. So yes, reading symlinks is important. | |
| Oct 22, 2018 at 9:10 | comment | added | Socowi |
Most of the code is only there to resolve symlinks. Do you really need that? I think dirname "$0" should be sufficient in your case.
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| Oct 22, 2018 at 8:38 | history | asked | nagylzs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |