Fritz Thomas

This is an update and in depth look to my previous Blog post of “How to get absolute path within the running shell script“. In my previous post i used a solution with readlink which is not available everywhere. Especially on Mac OS there is no readlink. But, we do not need readlink anyway…

cd /home/USER tar cf – . | (cd /dir/where/you/want/to/copy && tar xBf -) This has some advantages over cp -rfp. You can read it in detail at O`Reilly

Take a look at my updated post Have you ever needed the absolute path of the shell script within this script? I do not mean the current working dir (pwd). That is different, because you do not know from which path the bash script is called. In my case i needed the absolute path, because [...]