get directory of a julia script

[Ryan Gardner]

Is there a way I can get the directory of a julia script?

E.g., if I run /tmp/my_dir/foo.jl from anywhere, I want to get "/tmp/my_dir".  Something like an ARGS[0] that contains the name of the executable on the command line would work.

(I couldn't find anything like this in the documentation.)

Thanks.

[Stefan Karpinski]

It's not entirely official, hence not exported, but Base.source_path() will return the path of the current source file. You can do dirname(Base.source_path()) to get the directory of the current source file.