On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Munir Nassar wrote: > Dan Armbrust wrote: >> I'm trying to find a variable or a command that will tell me where the >> currently executing script lives. >> >> So, If I'm running /foo/bar.sh, I'm looking for a something that will >> give me "/foo/", while I'm inside the script bar.sh. >> > > $ dirname /foo/bar.sh > /foo > $ $ cd foo $ dirname bar.sh . Oops. He wants something that works when the full path is not given on the command line. See my earlier message. Mike