[ale] How to expand to full-path name?

[volcimaster at gmail.com (Warren Myers)]

this should work:

#!/bin/sh
SCRIPT_HOME=`pwd`
echo $SCRIPT_HOME

-wmm

On 8/9/07, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Suppose I have MyScript in /home/me/bin which does this:
>
>         #!/bin/sh
>         SCRIPT_HOME=`dirname $0`
>         echo home=$SCRIPT_HOME
>
> Now I run it from /home/me/bin which produces:
>
>         home=.
>
> How can I expand SCRIPT_HOME into the full path name (i.e. /home/me/bin)?
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