[CentOS] Get only script name with shell script

Steve Thompson smt at vgersoft.com
Fri Apr 24 18:40:38 UTC 2009


On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Semih Gokalp wrote:

> I wrote shell script and put it under the /usr/local/bin/ directory.
>
> I use echo $0 for get script name but it has printed
> "/usr/local/bin/<scriptname>" but  i want to only print <scriptname>
>
> How can i do this ?

Instead of:

 	echo $0

use:

 	echo `basename $0`

-Steve



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