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How To Get The Script Path Name in CSH/TCSH
Here a C shell snippet get_script_path.csh to do the trick.
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#!/bin/tcsh -f set called=($_) if ( "$called" != "" ) then ### called by source echo "branch 1" set script_fn=`readlink -f $called[2]` else ### called by direct excution of the script echo "branch 2" set script_fn=`readlink -f $0` endif echo "A:$0" echo "B:$called" set script_dir=`dirname $script_fn` echo "script file name=$script_fn" echo "script dir=$script_dir" |
We have two ways to run the script, to illustrate why we need to handle differently, we print out the internal strings. 1. Source the script file
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tps-VirtualBox:~/test> source ./get_script_dir.csh branch 1 A:tcsh B:source ./get_script_dir.csh script file name=/home/tps/test/get_script_dir.csh script dir=/home/tps/test |
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