Re: Special parameter $_ expands to a relative path

[Angel Tsankov]

On 09/01/11 15:11, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 01:15:34AM -0800, Roger wrote:
[...]
> The original poster may be interested in this page:
>
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/028 -- How do I determine the location
> of my script?  I want to read some config files from the same place.
>
> That sounds like what he was hoping to accomplish.  He is going to be
> disappointed, unless he's willing to accept one of the "90% solutions"
> that are so incredibly popular.

Thanks for your answer!

As I'm not inclined to accept less than 100% of anything, I'm indeed 
very unhappy with this situation.  It turns out that a universal 
solution is to design shell scripts so that they never need to know 
their location.  This, in turn, may lead to design restrictions in other 
parts of a system based at least partly on shell scripts.  And this, at 
times, is certainly a pain in the ass.


Regards,
Angel Tsankov