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by Brian_K_White 2015 days ago
no no no... god this is gross and awful

  SELF=${0##*/}    # aka basename
  DIR=${0%/*}      # aka dirname
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dastx 2015 days ago
Running a script as sh script.sh returns only script.sh, thus, you've already got SELF, but you wouldn't get DIR.
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cat199 2015 days ago
but, you don't need it since you are already there, and can just use $PWD (no need for `pwd`) from that point onward.
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