09-25-2009
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Would appreciate if someone can explain the ${0##*/} line. What does it do?
that is shell's string operations.
yeah, if you see the result it is same as
basename $0
${0##*/} is removing everything before "/" from the variable $0.
so its returning just the script name itself, without absolute path or ./ ( if executed from the current dir).
built in shell operations are always faster than external commands eg basename as per my knowledge.
see man pages for shell for more details.
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NAME
shell - run a command using shell
SYNOPSIS
shell command [command] ...
DESCRIPTION
The shell function concatenate its arguments, separating each by a space, and passes this string to the shell ($SHELL if set, otherwise
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EXAMPLES
Example 1 A sample output of shell command.
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