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Asked: 2026-05-26T10:36:10+00:00

I wrote a script a while back that would do some simple install procedures

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I wrote a script a while back that would do some simple install procedures in linux for people that don’t like the command line, but it seems that they are running the script from a location (such as root). So I have a solution in mind but trying to find out how to reference where the file is located.

Example.
I have a script called Install.sh in a folder /root/Server/Scripts/ which references itself by using the following:

SCRIPTSDIR=`pwd`

But I have come into problems with people running this script from root by doing sh Server/Scripts/Install.sh

How could I make SCRIPTS= something that references where the file is located, not where it is being run from?

Thanks, ask if you need more info!

Edit: All answers were good, I meant to put I needed absolute path.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can get dir with

    dirname $0

    If your script is called with relative path, dirname will also return relative path. If you want to resolve it for some reason, you can do

    readlink -f `dirname $0`
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