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From: fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
Subject: Re: tail of a path
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Summary: use basename
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Date: 14 May 91 12:45:14 GMT
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afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA writes:
>Basically I want to be able to get the name of a script out
>of $0 without the path.

Use basename if it's available on your machine.  It's not a shell
builtin, though.  Use backquotes if you want to use the result in your
script.

prog=`basename $0`

Brian