Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On 26 Oct 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:

> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Thomas> Is it true (for a shell) that $0 is always a full pathname?
> Thomas> (it could be a relative one, which complicates things a
> Thomas> little).
> 
> I've never met any counterexample.  A brand lot scripts out there use it.

$0 is a full pathname if that's the way the script was invoked (I assume
that's what you are saying - if it was not invoked with a full pathname,
it really depends on the shell that was used to look up the name of
the script).

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