fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) (05/14/91)
afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA writes: >Basically I want to be able to get the name of a script out >of $0 without the path. Use basename if it's available on your machine. It's not a shell builtin, though. Use backquotes if you want to use the result in your script. prog=`basename $0` Brian
weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796)) (05/15/91)
In article <=+_hsq.@rpi.edu>, fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes: |> afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA writes: |> >Basically I want to be able to get the name of a script out |> >of $0 without the path. |> |> Use basename if it's available on your machine. It's not a shell |> builtin, though. Use backquotes if you want to use the result in your |> script. |> |> prog=`basename $0` or if you don't have basename (or don't want to worry about it): prog=`echo $0|awk -f/ '{print $NF}'` weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )