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how to get the dir of an app

Posted by jason on 2000-04-02

anyone know how to get the absolute dir of an app that you call. 

ie, i'm in my dir ~jason and i call ls.  how would get the directory ls is in.

basically what i'm doing is, somebody calls my app which goes back 1 dir from
its position and then into another dir.  so if the app fubar is in
/usr/bin/ then when it executes it will change the dir to /usr/fubar

any clues hints or suggestions?
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