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JacobJohansen/shell-relative-to-script.sh

Created March 24, 2022 13:08
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Provides a solid way for scripts to run from no matter where they're executed from, even when simlinked for all nix systems with perl. most systems don't have readlink
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shell-relative-to-script.sh
#!/bin/sh
relative_dir=`perl -e 'use Cwd "realpath";$pwd = realpath(shift); $pwd =~ s/\/[^\/]*$//; print $pwd' $0`
cd $relative_dir
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