#!/bin/bash

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### Get the directory of the script file
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### Usage:
### source ./get-script-directory.sh;
### dirScript=$(getDirectoryScript);
function getScriptDirectory() {
    ### Using pwd alone will not work if you are not running the script from
    ### the directory it is contained in.
    ###
    ### $() acts as a kind of quoting for commands but they're run in their own context.
    ### dirname gives you the path portion of the provided argument (removing the file name).
    ###
    ### This command gets the script's source file pathname, strips it to just
    ### the path portion, cds to that path, then uses pwd to return the (effectively)
    ### full path of the script. This is assigned to the variable. After all of
    ### that, the context is unwound so you end up back in the directory you started
    ### at but with an environment variable containing the script's path.
    dirScript="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"

    echo ${dirScript};
}