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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 01:59:46 +1100
Subject: Re: Function for the path of the script?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2013-10-27, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's very common to want to know what directory you're in - it's a
>> good way to find data files.
>
> From a Unix point of view, that's also very wrong.  Data files don't
> belong in the same directory as the executable.

For installed programs, maybe; but we run a lot of scripts out of
source control, like a sanity checker that gets run immediately before
a commit. Some of them need data files that are also source-managed,
so we have them in the same directory. Locating those files is usually
easiest done by tailing onto the script's path.

ChrisA