Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:49:23 -0500 From: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting $0 Problem Message-ID: <20161028014923.GA11638@fedora24> In-Reply-To: <b859f7a3-51d1-06f4-e793-332edd212068@tundraware.com> References: <b859f7a3-51d1-06f4-e793-332edd212068@tundraware.com>
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 08:30:40PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I was fidding with some shell code today and discovered it was breaking > because $0 was returning "-/usr/local/bin/bash". Why is there a leading > dash here? I've not seen that before. How are you invoking the expansion, i.e., from a file or the command-line? Is this a login shell? What do you get from the command-line with <echo "$0">?
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