I think shell is the most plagiarized code in existence.
So many sysadmins have rudimentary skills and simply copy what works.
I have seen some folks with huge repos of code snippets like that
So many sysadmins have rudimentary skills and simply copy what works.
I have seen some folks with huge repos of code snippets like that
DIR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
I started using the longer one, and then I gave up on shell scripting on OS X for other reasons, and didn't go back. So yeah there is a lot of random cargo culting.
In Oil I hope to provide an even simpler method that's built in (and it also has readlink builtin to support this)