argv[0] in shellscript?

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <1813 at stpstn.UUCP> aad at stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
| 
| I want to write a script that will have multiple links to it, and be
| able to tell what name it was invoked with.  Ideas?

  How about $0? That's the name of the called program.  Watch out if you
have a full pathname (ie.  $0 = foo/something).  In that case use a case
to strip the leading name, like:

  case "$0" in
  foo | */foo)
    echo "Name is foo";;
  mumbl | */mumbl)
    echo "Name is mumbl";;
  *)
    echo "Name is wrong!";exit 1;;
  esac
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