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What about if the script wants to source sibling files in the samedirectory? I.e. it is a bash library of sorts with modules spread over files. This isn’t “operating on data” abe it would be weird for a library to have to receive its own location as an argument in order to have to load its own modules.

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I don't think there's much weird about providing a script a path to its dependencies. If it's the case that the path to the dependencies location is the same as the path to the script's location, that's fine. We're asking distinct questions (where is my data, where are my deps, where is my script) here, the unnecessary coupling is precisely the assumption they have the same answer. If they happen to have the same answer, that's not weird, that sort of thing happens all the time.

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