Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oliveb!bunker!stpstn!aad From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: my argv[0] question Message-ID: <1818@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 9 Jun 88 13:23:48 GMT Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 14 An infinite number of thanks to all who responded. My need was simple, so I just used sh. What I've got is a bunch of short files, each containing an escape sequence for my gigi, and I wanted to create one script to cat them, with multiple hard links to it: cat /usr/local/lib/gigi/`basename $0` does the trick quite nicely. Fly to the sky on GI-GI___________________ and shout to-- Anthony A. Datri 8 Bridge End Farm Lane SysAdmin Sandy Hook, CT 06482 Stepstone Corporation (203)426-8336