how to get my script to confirm the directory it is in

[thomas130]

I know this does'nt work but how in my script would I get the script to confirm it's directory is in.

if [ $pwd -eq $LOG_DIR ];
then
echo "work"
else
echo "did'nt work"

Thanks
Tom

[coopstah13]

variables in bash are case sensitive you need $PWD

[Kloschüssel]

Despite the fact that this comment is rather off topic:

A script should not care about which working directory it is being executed at unless it is designed to do so. I.e. if a script removes files from a directory and someone else executes it in error that one could become rude, especially if the other one was me and $PWD was ~.

[cfajohnson]

Despite the fact that this comment is rather off topic:

A script should not care about which working directory it is being executed at unless it is designed to do so. I.e. if a script removes files from a directory and someone else executes it in error that one could become rude, especially if the other one was me and $PWD was ~.

On the contrary; it may be very important for a script to know what directory it is being executed in, or it might do unwanted things in the wrong directory.

On the other hand, it should never be necessary to know which directory the script itself is in.

[Cabhan]

If the script is supposed to act on a certain directory, I think that you have two choices that are better than what you are doing here:

1) Don't use the current directory, use the target directory. For example, if printing every file in the current directory, say "cat $TARGET_DIR/*", not "cat *". This way, the current directory doesn't matter.

2) Make the first thing you do to cd to the target directory:

cd $TARGET_DIR
cat *