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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: AWK ARGV[0]
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.052838.18520@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 90 05:28:38 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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I would like to know how I can retrieve the original argv[0] from an awk
script.  ARGV[0] is supposed to have the value "awk" though on some systems
this is not true.  The purpose is to be able to detect what command name
was used to invoke the awk script.
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