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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help with distributing scripts Post 302414261 by Scrutinizer on Monday 19th of April 2010 03:55:54 PM
Old 04-19-2010
Hi msb65,

$0 Expands to the name of the shell script as it was called on the command line. By using parameter expansion ${parameter%word} the smallest suffix pattern is removed. In this case everything after and including the last slash gets removed (/*), i.e. the name of the script itself. What remains is the absolute or relative path to the directory in which the scripts are located...

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