Bash get script path

bash_path

You can't use $0 because that gives only a relative path if the script is run with a command like ./myscript.sh.

The method below works well for both Linux and Mac OS X. It's a bit weird, but works.

#!/bin/bash
#==========================
# bash - find path to script
#==========================
abspath=$(cd ${0%/*} && echo $PWD/${0##*/})

# to get the path only - not the script name - add
path_only=`dirname "$abspath"`

#display the paths to prove it works
echo $abspath
echo $path_only