# This is an automatic variable set to the current file's/module's directory $PSScriptRoot PowerShell 2
Prior to PowerShell 3, there was not a better way than querying the MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition property for general scripts. I had the following following line at the top of essentially every powershellPowerShell script I had:
$scriptPath = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition