Re: how to refer to basename of $0

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Jul 29, 10:08am, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
} Subject: Re: how to refer to basename of $0
}
} On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Tomasz Moskal wrote:
} 
} > On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 21:04 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
} >> On Jul 28,  9:39pm, TJ Luoma wrote:
} >> }
} >> } Is it even possible to set NAME in .zsh* (and have it return 
} >> } 'test.zsh' or are they called too early in the process?
} >>
} >> This is sounding awfully familiar.  Oh, it was on zsh-workers, where 
} >> some of the -users crowd would not have seen it.
} >
} > Thanks for the links, but I am still baffled -  basename $0  is 
} > working here without any problems:
} 
} The point wasn't quite the same (didn't involve "source"-ing .zshenv). 
} $0 doesn't work if used inside startup files (.zshenv/.zshrc/.zprofile). 
} When you source it manually, it's not treated specially.
} 
} Just wanted to note that the '%x' that I pointed out does work, though:
} 
} ## as the first line of .zshenv (so, will be run when starting zsh)
} $ sed 1q ~/.zshenv
} echo in .zshenv 0=$0 %x=${(%):-%x}

And I just wanted to point out that ${(%):-%x} doesn't solve the problem
being discussed in the zsh-workers thread I referenced; in the workers
thread the desire is to find the name of the calling script, which has
not yet been assigned to $0 at the time .zshenv is read.

This led to the patch proposed here:

http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2011/msg00180.html

-- which has not yet been applied, the discussion having broken off at
this point:

http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2011/msg00183.html