Question

How can a script determine it’s path when it is sourced by ksh? i.e.

$ ksh ". foo.sh"

I’ve seen very nice ways of doing this in BASH posted on stackoverflow and elsewhere but haven’t yet found a ksh method.

Using “$0” doesn’t work. This simply refers to “ksh”.

Update: I’ve tried using the “history” command but that isn’t aware of the history outside the current script.

$ cat k.ksh
#!/bin/ksh
. j.ksh
$ cat j.ksh
#!/bin/ksh
a=$(history | tail -1)
echo $a
$ ./k.ksh
270 ./k.ksh

I would want it echo “* ./j.ksh”.

Answer 1

I believe the only portable solution is to override the source command:

source() {
  sourced=$1
  . "$1"
}

And then use source instead of . (the script name will be in $sourced).