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Re: Why is srcdir passed as .
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Thomas E. Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: Why is srcdir passed as . |
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Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:56:31 -0400 (EDT) |
On 26 Oct 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Thomas> $0 is a full pathname if that's the way the script was invoked
> Thomas> (I assume that's what you are saying - if it was not invoked
> Thomas> with a full pathname, it really depends on the shell that was
> Thomas> used to look up the name of the script).
>
> Actually no, I really meant that I never saw a $0 being the name which
> was invoked. A full path, at least in each practical case, I suppose
> you can break that, but it does not happen in real life. At least
> mine :)
>
#!/bin/sh
echo "$0 $*"
if test $# != 0 ; then
echo ...done
else
eval $0 param
fi
Call that "foo", and run ./foo. On Solaris I only see relative pathnames
printed. (Are you still talking about that case?)
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