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Welcome to bashoneliners.com, a curated collection of practical and well-explained Bash one-liners, snippets, tips and tricks. We aim to make each published one-liner to be of high quality: useful, easy to read, follows best practices, with clear, detailed, accurate explanation. These one-liners should help you automate tasks, troubleshoot problems, whether it be in system administration, file management, networking or programming.

Move file and cd with one command

mv file dir/ && cd "$_" && pwd

April 16, 2022Bryan-netizen

Source without circular reference

[ ! "${LIB}" ] && ( readonly LIB; . "${ $( cd $( dirname $0 ) && pwd ) }/<path_to>/LIB.sh" )

January 24, 2018dhsrocha

Get the absolute path of the current script's working directory

cwd=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)

January 22, 2018dhsrocha