Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:53:32 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting $0 Problem Message-ID: <a6931603-c2b2-1dc7-6997-ae896db90d88@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <20161028014923.GA11638@fedora24> References: <b859f7a3-51d1-06f4-e793-332edd212068@tundraware.com> <20161028014923.GA11638@fedora24>
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On 10/27/2016 08:49 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > 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">? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > My .bashrc source as standard startup profile: . mystartup Inside mystartup the folloing statement exists: source foo.sh $0 as reported in foo.sh is coming back with "-/usr/local/bin/bash"... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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