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sirkkalap/Find script base dir on most posix environments

Created January 25, 2016 18:56
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BASEDIR allows running scripts without cd'ing into their folders first. With properly set basedir all local resources can be referenced without CWD being in the script folder.
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Find script base dir on most posix environments
#!/bin/sh
BASEDIR=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; pwd)
echo $BASEDIR
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