Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@wrouesnel
Created March 23, 2020 02:55
Show Gist options
  • Star 0 You must be signed in to star a gist
  • Fork 0 You must be signed in to fork a gist
  • Save wrouesnel/0ddb530bf661c43056ff72a9bb95ba76 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save wrouesnel/0ddb530bf661c43056ff72a9bb95ba76 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
How to get the source directory of a Bash script from within the script itself (so I can stop looking up SO)
#!/bin/bash
# See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59895/how-to-get-the-source-directory-of-a-bash-script-from-within-the-script-itself
SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symlink
DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
SOURCE="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"
[[ $SOURCE != /* ]] && SOURCE="$DIR/$SOURCE" # if $SOURCE was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
done
DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment