Hello friends,

I am not very high-up on Shell scripting - so sorry if this is a stupid query.

I work on Mac OS X. I have another volume/disk mounted on my machine. I am trying to execute a script residing on that disk. The script is supposed to get the directory path where it is residing. I am using :

CURRENT_DIRECTORY=`pwd`
echo "CURRENT_DIRECTORY is $CURRENT_DIRECTORY"

But the result of this is coming out to be my machine's desktop where the volume is mounted. :

CURRENT_DIRECTORY is /Users/sathya

rather than the expected

CURRENT_DIRECTORY is /Volumes/Disk1/MyDirectory

I am executing the script from sh :

#!/bin/sh

Is this not the way to get the directory ?
Is there any other way I can get the path ?

Thanks.

can you do
df -k /users/sathya

and post it here ...

I assume you want something different and not `pwd`


Cheers
Sathyaram

These is the output of the df -k :


[Sathyas-Panther-Jr:~/SFAScripts/TESTING] sathya% df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s5 58599900 30403184 27940716 52% /
<volfs> 512 512 0 100% /.vol
automount/Servers
automount -static [327] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
/dev/disk1s2 662960 554544 108416 84% /Volumes/TestDisk

My problem is that I have a script I am executing residing on the mounted volume (/Volumes/TestDisk) on my machine (/dev/disk0s5). Now, when I try to get the current directory in the script :

CURRENT_DIR=`pwd`
echo $CURRENT_DIR

Instead of the expected /Volumes/TestDisk, it returns $HOME.

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

To determine mount point, use result of 'df -k .'

try this:

#!/bin/bash

CURRENT_DIR=`dirname $0`

echo "\$CURRENT_DIR=${CURRENT_DIR}"