Re: locating a sourced file

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:23:56 +0100, Robert Hull wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:52, Angel Tsankov
<fn42551@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:

How can a sourced file determine its location?

Source files cannot determine anything - they are not executables.

I think the OP mean how can a sourced file (like in shell ./file.sh)
determine it's location. This sounds like home work so I won't answer
this directly but take a look at the variable $0.

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