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cruelfate on 01/07/11


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Determine absolute minimal absolute path of parent directory containing this script. (remove any ".." path segments). Works with rudimentary Bourne shell as well as bash.

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  1. #! /bin/sh
  2.  
  3. # Get absolute minimal absolute path of parent directory containing
  4. # this script with ".." path segments removed
  5.  
  6. d=`dirname $0`/..
  7. d=`(cd "$d"; pwd)`
  8. echo parent: $d
  9.  
  10. d=`dirname $0`
  11. d=`(cd "$d"; pwd)`
  12. echo self: $d
  13.  
  14. # bash version
  15. # echo parent: $(cd "$(dirname $0)/.."; pwd)
  16. # echo self: $(cd "$(dirname $0)"; pwd)

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