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id: _MAIN_SCRIPT
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The `_MAIN_SCRIPT` global variable stores the full path to the main project script. This will be the value passed to the `--file` command line argument, or the location of the initial **premake5.lua** script if no `--file` argument was specified.

### Availability ###

Premake 5.0 or later.

## See Also ##

* [_MAIN_SCRIPT_DIR](premake_MAIN_SCRIPT_DIR.md)
* [_PREMAKE_DIR](premake_PREMAKE_DIR.md)
* [_WORKING_DIR](premake_WORKING_DIR.md)