From: Fred T. Hamster <fred@mycroft.gruntose.blurgh>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:57:50 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: example of auto-location of a running scripts path in the file system.
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example of auto-location of a running scripts path in the file system.
does not work for a file that is 'source'd into another bash script.
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diff --git a/scripts/examples/script_location.sh b/scripts/examples/script_location.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bdae0fc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/examples/script_location.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+
+# find out the location where this script is running from.  this will not
+# work properly in a bash script that is included via 'source' or '.'.
+# the first letter of each command is escaped to eliminate the danger of
+# personal aliases or functions disrupting the results.
+ORIGINATING_FOLDER="$( \cd "$(\dirname "$0")" && \pwd )"
+