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From: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: how to refer to basename of $0
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:55:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADjGqHuKhx9A3HCUBjU4JgRsbj52s7DQ6HGewT=Y9uRMDGD-fg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I am trying to move a bunch of my scripts to zsh instead of bash
because I'm starting to run into little differences in the way things
are handled which are annoying, and I figured it made more sense to
just learn one way rather than two.

I have a ".source" file that I use to setup some functions and
variables for use in my scripts, and one of the things it does it
this:

NAME=`basename $0`

which, in bash, gives me the basename of the script. For example, if
the script "foo.sh" read .source like this:

	. $HOME/.source

and then I did

	echo "$NAME"

it would give me

	foo.sh

but in zsh I get

	zsh

Is there a way for me to get the equivalent of `basename $0` when
writing shell scripts in zsh?

(I hope this is understandable. If not, please let me know and I'll
try to rephrase.)

thanks for your time

TjL


             reply	other threads:[~2011-07-28 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-28 22:55 TJ Luoma [this message]
2011-07-28 23:54 ` Tomasz Moskal
2011-07-29  0:24 ` Phil Pennock
2011-07-29  1:30   ` Tomasz Moskal
2011-07-29  0:44 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2011-07-29  1:39   ` TJ Luoma
2011-07-29  2:06     ` Tomasz Moskal
2011-07-29  4:04     ` Bart Schaefer
2011-07-29  4:50       ` TJ Luoma
2011-07-29 11:48       ` Tomasz Moskal
2011-07-29 14:08         ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2011-07-29 22:30           ` Bart Schaefer
2011-07-30 19:43             ` Greg Klanderman
2011-07-29  3:05   ` TJ Luoma

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