Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am ashamed to admit that I have been writing shell
> scripts for about 15 years but this problem has me stumped. $0
> is the shell variable which contains the script name or at least
> what name is linked to the script. The string in $0 may or may
> not contain a path, depending upon how the script was called. It
> is easy to strip off the path if it is always there
>
> #! /bin/sh
> PROGNAME=`echo $0 |awk 'BEGIN{FS="/"}{print $NF}'`
> echo $PROGNAME
As said by others, you can use `basename`. Apart from this, you can
fix your old habit by prepending a '/' before '$0', like this:
#! /bin/sh
PROGNAME=`echo /$0 |awk 'BEGIN{FS="/"}{print $NF}'`
echo $PROGNAME
Last, you can also use variable expansions mechanisms by saying:
PROGNAME="${0##*/}"
The main difference with `basename` way is that the latter do not call
a subprogram.
(If you are sure there is no space in your name, you can remove the
quotes, but are you sure?)
See `Parameter Expansion' in sh(1).
--
Best wishes,
Michaël
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