I have created a custom script for creating a file inside the directory. /mnt/c/Users/username/Documents/mkfile.sh (I am using the windows subsystem for Linux)
dir_str=$1
dir_arr=($(echo $dir_str | tr "[\\\/]" "\n"))
dir_path=""
file_name=""
for i in "${!dir_arr[@]}"
do
dirArrLen=${#dir_arr[@]}
if [ $(($i+1)) -ge $dirArrLen ]
then
sudo touch "${dir_path}/${dir_arr[$i]}"
file_name=${dir_arr[$i]}
# echo "${dir_path}/${dir_arr[$i]}"
elif [ $(($i+1)) -eq 1 ]
then
# to avoid starting slash
sudo mkdir "${dir_arr[$i]}"
dir_path=${dir_arr[$i]}
# echo $dir_path
else
sudo mkdir "${dir_path}/${dir_arr[$i]}"
# echo "${dir_path}/${dir_arr[$i]}"
dir_path="${dir_path}/${dir_arr[$i]}"
fi
done
echo "File ${file_name} has been created successfully in ${dir_path}"
when this is executed inside the path(/mnt/c/Users/username/Documents/) where mkfile shell script file is present at now it creates a file successfully. ex:
Input :
/mnt/c/Users/username/Documents$./mkfile.sh hello/world/new.txt
Output: It creates a new.txt file inside like : /mnt/c/Users/username/Documents/hello/world/new.txt
File new.txt has been created successfully in hello/world
but when I move the file to the home directory add it to alias in ~/.bashrc file like(To make it as a custom shell command)
alias mkfile="~/mkfile.sh"
This shell script is not working(I think this is trying to create a file in the home directory instead from where it was called), ex:
username@DESKTOP-SELKMGP:/mnt/c/Users/username/Documents/$ mkfile hello/world/new.txt
does not create any directory/file inside documents.
Question:
Inside mkfile.sh file situated in the home directory is there any way to capture the path of the directory from where the command was entered,
ex:
Input :
/mnt/c/Users/username/Documents$ mkfile hello/world/new.txt
Expected : Inside ~/mkfile.sh situated in home directory I want to get: /mnt/c/Users/username/Documents/
I tried pwd but that outputs the home directory path instead of the path from where the command was entered
and also realpath $0 did not work
