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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting whats this NAME=${0##*/} Post 302241928 by otheus on Tuesday 30th of September 2008 03:15:04 PM
Old 09-30-2008
I guess as they say, RTFM more carefully. Just kidding. Smilie

NAME=${0##*/}
simply gets the name of the currently executing script. The $0 is what does it, and the rest strips of the leading path names. It's useful when the script name is supposed to different things depending on how its invoked. For instance, if you have a softlink to your script named "foo" and another softlink named "bar", then your script can do print out "FU" instead of "Beyond All Recognition". Or something.

set -xv +xv are shorthand for
Code:
set -x
set -v

The first turns on "eXecution debugging". Every command that is executed, and after parsing, is printed to stderr. The second turns on "Verbose mode" which prints to stderr every line that is read in and before being parsed, whether or not it is executed.
 

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suspend(1)							   User Commands							suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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