How can I find the location of the tcsh shell script I'm executing?

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Published on 2010-04-01T20:04:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 20:33 UTC
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Say I put an executable tcsh file in /path/to/my_script.csh

and my current directory is anywhere, for example I'm in /path

So I type to/my_script.csh

I want to have a line in my_script.csh that will return "/path/to/my_script.csh" - like ruby's

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