Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
On Thursday 29 May 2008 14:57, McKown, John wrote:
I thought that I could get this from $0. But in my tests, if the script
is on the PATH and I invoke it just with its name, I get just its name
in return. ...

This is always a tricky problem, because various shells do it differently.

Specifying bash,
#!/bin/bash

should get the required behaviour.

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Cheers
John

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