#!/usr/bin/env bash
SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )"
is a useful one-liner which will give you the full directory name of the script no matter where it is being called from.
It will work as long as the last component of the path used to find the script is not a symlink (directory links are OK). If you also want to resolve any links to the script itself, you need a multi-line solution:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symlink
DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
SOURCE="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"
[[ $SOURCE != /* ]] && SOURCE="$DIR/$SOURCE" # if $SOURCE was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
done
DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
This last one will work with any combination of aliases, source
, bash -c
, symlinks, etc.
Beware: if you cd
to a different directory before running this snippet, the result may be incorrect!
Also, watch out for $CDPATH
gotchas, and stderr output side effects if the user has smartly overridden cd to redirect output to stderr instead (including escape sequences, such as when calling update_terminal_cwd >&2
on Mac). Adding >/dev/null 2>&1
at the end of your cd
command will take care of both possibilities.
To understand how it works, try running this more verbose form:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symlink
TARGET="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"
if [[ $TARGET == /* ]]; then
echo "SOURCE '$SOURCE' is an absolute symlink to '$TARGET'"
SOURCE="$TARGET"
else
DIR="$( dirname "$SOURCE" )"
echo "SOURCE '$SOURCE' is a relative symlink to '$TARGET' (relative to '$DIR')"
SOURCE="$DIR/$TARGET" # if $SOURCE was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
fi
done
echo "SOURCE is '$SOURCE'"
RDIR="$( dirname "$SOURCE" )"
DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
if [ "$DIR" != "$RDIR" ]; then
echo "DIR '$RDIR' resolves to '$DIR'"
fi
echo "DIR is '$DIR'"
And it will print something like:
SOURCE './scriptdir.sh' is a relative symlink to 'sym2/scriptdir.sh' (relative to '.')
SOURCE is './sym2/scriptdir.sh'
DIR './sym2' resolves to '/home/ubuntu/dotfiles/fo fo/real/real1/real2'
DIR is '/home/ubuntu/dotfiles/fo fo/real/real1/real2'
For Git 1.x
$ git add -u
This tells git to automatically stage tracked files -- including deleting the previously tracked files.
For Git 2.0
To stage your whole working tree:
$ git add -u :/
To stage just the current path:
$ git add -u .
Best Answer
Update Apr. 2021: there are a few tools created by the community that can do this for you:
Note: if you're trying to download a large number of files, you may need to provide a token to these tools to avoid rate limiting.
Original (manual) approach: Checking out an individual directory is not supported by
git
natively, but Github can do this via SVN. If you checkout your code with subversion, Github will essentially convert the repo from git to subversion on the backend, then serve up the requested directory.Here's how you can use this feature to download a specific folder. I'll use the popular javascript library
lodash
as an example.Navigate to the folder you want to download. Let's download
/test
frommaster
branch.Modify the URL for subversion. Replace
tree/master
withtrunk
.https://github.com/lodash/lodash/tree/master/test
➜https://github.com/lodash/lodash/trunk/test
Download the folder. Go to the command line and grab the folder with SVN.
You might not see any activity immediately because Github takes up to 30 seconds to convert larger repositories, so be patient.
That's all! Github supports more subversion features as well, including support for committing and pushing changes.