Hacking at alternatives for symbolic link resolution that work across OSX, BSD, and GNU.

target.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Consider the following structure where this script is target.sh
# /tmp/
# ├── target.sh
# └── l1
#     ├── one.sh -> ../target.sh
#     └── l2
#         └── two.sh -> ../one.sh
# From your home directory run:
# /tmp/target.sh
# /tmp/l1/one.sh
# /tmp/l1/l2/two.sh

######################
### Showing State ###
######################
MYDIR=$(pwd)
DNAME=$(dirname $0)
CDPWD=$(cd ${DNAME} ; pwd -P)

echo "-----"
echo "pwd is the directory from which the command is run."
echo "pwd: ${MYDIR}"

echo "-----"
echo "Dirname of script prints directory symlink sits in."
echo "dirname: ${DNAME}"

echo "-----"
echo "Using cd and pwd -P on the dirname of the symlink still resolves to symlink dir."
echo "cd and pwd: ${CDPWD}"

#######################
### Testing LS LOOP ###
#######################
THIS_SCRIPT="$0"

export FUSEKI_HOME="${FUSEKI_HOME:-$PWD}"
# Handle resolving symlinks to this script on BSD or GNU systems by avoiding readlink.
while [ -h "$THIS_SCRIPT" ] ; do
  ls=`ls -ld "$THIS_SCRIPT"`
  # Drop everything prior to ->
  link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
  if expr "$link" : '/.*' > /dev/null; then
    THIS_SCRIPT="$link"
  else
    THIS_SCRIPT=`dirname "$THIS_SCRIPT"`/"$link"
  fi
done

# Get path to the scripts directory.
LS_LOOP=$(dirname "${THIS_SCRIPT}")

#############################
### Testing Readlink LOOP ###
#############################
echo "-----"
echo "The ls loop resolves any number of links."
echo "ls loop: ${LS_LOOP}"

MY_FILE="$0"
while [ -h "$MY_FILE" ] ; do
  READ_LINK=$(readlink ${MY_FILE})
  RL_DIR=$(dirname $READ_LINK)
  RL_FILE=$(basename $READ_LINK)
  ACT_DIR=$(cd $RL_DIR; pwd -P) # This fails because $RL_DIR isn't absolute
  MY_FILE=${ACT_DIR}/${RL_FILE}
done

RL_LOOP=$(dirname ${MY_FILE})

echo "-----"
echo "Looping readlink with cd and pwd -P"
echo "readlink loop: ${RL_LOOP}"

The following is the result of running this on Ubuntu 18.04

∫ home/grosscol ⮞ /tmp/l1/l2/two.sh 
-----
pwd is the directory from which the command is run.
pwd: /home/grosscol
-----
Dirname of script prints directory symlink sits in.
dirname: /tmp/l1/l2
-----
Using cd and pwd -P on the dirname of the symlink still resolves to symlink dir.
cd and pwd: /tmp/l1/l2
-----
The ls loop resolves any number of links.
ls loop: /tmp/l1/l2/../..
-----
Looping readlink with cd and pwd -P
readlink loop: /home