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Get full directory path of a script regardless of where it is run from

Since none of the systems I work on have readlink, this works cross-platform (everywhere has perl, right?). Note: This will resolve links. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
]$  ls -l test.sh
-rwxr-xr-x    1 follier dev-user         78 Feb 01 14:05 test.sh

]$  ./test.sh
/home/follier/test.sh

]$  ls -l linktest.sh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 follier dev-user         12 Feb 01 14:07 linktest.sh -> /tmp/test.sh

]$ ./linktest.sh
/tmp/test.sh
```
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FULLPATH=$(perl -e "use Cwd 'abs_path';print abs_path('$0');")

follier · 2013-02-01 20:09:34 6

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