Some of the modern JavaScript-tools have democratized coding - for better and for worse. This, as much other democratization of technology and media, has enabled those that previously lacked resources (as in time, specialized knowledge and/or currency)...

If you ever need to perform operations relative to the path of a shell script, the following snippet should be useful:

DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"

This will give you the absolute path to the script in most cases (see this...