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From: weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: tail of a path
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Date: 14 May 91 21:09:30 GMT
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In article <=+_hsq.@rpi.edu>, fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
writes:
|> 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`

or if you don't have basename (or don't want to worry about it):

prog=`echo $0|awk -f/ '{print $NF}'`

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )