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Re:Relative shell script includes with realpath on FreeBSD by AsthmaBoy on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:40AM (#38514645)
Wouldn't

  readlink -f $0
work to get the actual location of the script, and from there get the base for relative scripts?
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Re:Relative shell script includes with realpath on FreeBSD by Asooka on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:44AM (#38517877)
The -f flag is a GNU extension. Using realpath is more portable.
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