I recently write shell script which need to know the path of itself.
Here is my implement:
SCRIPT_FILE=`which $0`
if [ -L $SCRIPT_FILE ]; then
SCRIPT_FILE=`readlink $SCRIPT_FILE`
fi
SCRIPT_PATH=`dirname $SCRIPT_FILE`
SCRIPT_FILE=`basename $SCRIPT_FILE`
echo Path: $SCRIPT_PATH
echo Filename: $SCRIPT_FILE
The code is also available on the gist.